Package: glipper Version: 2.4-6 Severity: normal most probably upstream's bug, and most probably triggered by something I added into a clipboard, but I don't remember adding anything heavy - primarily it is just text cut/pastes. But atm ps output for glipper is
$> ps auxw | grep glipper yoh 2418 0.0 15.3 2930764 2513048 tty2 Sl+ Apr22 1:27 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/glipper so about 2.5GB is used by the best in resident memory. I have no clue how to figure out what actually consumes so much in there. If someone provides hints, I would be happy to track it down. killing and starting a new process brings memory consumption down: 27695 yoh 20 0 451564 44420 30180 S 0.0 0.3 0:00.23 glipper while previous clipboard contents seems still to be available within glipper's menu. So I suspect either python leak of some kind, or some internal structure growing out of control -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable'), (300, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.4.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages glipper depends on: ii gconf2 3.2.6-3 ii python 2.7.9-1 ii python-gconf 2.28.1+dfsg-1.1 ii python-gobject 3.18.2-2 ii python-gtk2 2.24.0-4 ii python-keybinder 0.3.1-1 ii python-xdg 0.25-4 pn python:any <none> Versions of packages glipper recommends: ii python-crypto 2.6.1-5+b3 ii python-prctl 1.1.1-1.2 ii yelp 3.16.1-1 glipper suggests no packages. -- no debconf information