Description of problem: clock-applet consumes 1.5 GB of memory after Fedora 18 has been up for only 16 hours! Memory leak suspected. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): (Cannot determine version number of clock-applet). How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. Set System Settings->Details->Graphics->Forced Fallback Mode On in user account 2. Reboot Fedora 18 3. Login to user account 4. Let OS sit idle 5. Check memory consumption of clock-applet Actual results: clock-applet consumes 1.5 GB of memory in 3.7.4-204.fc18.x86_64 after 16 hours of uptime Expected results: clock-applet consumes 6.7 MB of memory in 3.7.3-101.fc17.x86_64 after 5 days of uptime Additional info: If you need any more information, please let me know. (Please tell me how to determine the version number of clock-applet). Thanks.
Version Information for gnome-applets with suspected memory leak: Name : gnome-applets Arch : x86_64 Epoch : 1 Version : 3.5.92 Release : 3.fc18 Size : 6.4 M Repo : fedora/18/x86_64 Version Information for gnome-applets working correctly: Name : gnome-applets Arch : x86_64 Epoch : 1 Version : 3.4.1 Release : 1.fc17 Size : 6.4 M Repo : fedora/17/x86_64
This is confirmed. Over the weekend clock-applet was consuming 5.2G of res memory on my laptop with F18. Killing and restarting clock-applet will drop it, but it consumes memory at almost 2GB/day.
Yes, I see same things - eat a lot of memory.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 952763 ***