From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.6 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020830 Description of problem: rhn-applet-gui sits in the Gnome panel display a few different icons. Every once in a while, it will sit near the top of "top" while it is doing its checking. 3533 myohe 15 0 16240 15M 9868 S 0.0 2.1 0:21 rhn-applet-gui 16M of memory consumed. Nautilus does much more (draws the desktop, displays folders, etc.) and it consumes only a mere 4M more than the applet in just a normal session. I suppose it is do to the fact that rhn-applet-gui is a resident Python session versus being programmed in leaner non-scripting language like Nautilus. Nonetheless - it's a hog for a really nice utility. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): $ rpm -qf `which rhn-applet-gui` rhn-applet-2.0.0-28 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Ensure that you've opted to have RHN's little update applet loaded in your panel. 2. Check top and search for "rhn-applet-gui" Actual Results: Lots of memory consumed. Expected Results: Not so much memory consumed. Additional info:
<AOL> Me too. Been chasing memory leaks on my system. Found and fixed one in the gweather applet, now the rhn applet appears next in line: ps -e -o size,args --sort size (truncated) 11404 gnome-panel --sm-client-id default2 15340 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/rhn-applet-gui --sm-client-id default5 15972 nautilus --no-default-window --sm-client-id default3 30828 /usr/local/netscape/netscape-bin 284072 /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 -auth /var/gdm/:0.Xauth DG
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 69467 ***
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.