This could be related to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/1199877?comments=all and not a gimp bug at all...
I think its triggering a bug in unitu-panel-service where the actual memory leak is. Is there a way to profile and determine where the leak is coming from? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gimp in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1242420 Title: Memory leak in Gimp 2.8.6 Status in “gimp” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: I just upgraded from 13.10 from 13.04. My wife is a professional photographer and relies on Gimp for the brunt of her editing. After the upgrade, the system would routinely slow to a crawl while she is working. This is on a modern system with 4GB of RAM. We started watching memory usage in Top while she edited to try to see what the problem was. Every time a new filter, plugin, tool, etc is used - the used memory goes up and the free memory goes down. When the tool/filter/plugin is finished, this memory is never freed back up. This continues all the way until we are using swap space and things then really slow to a crawl. Closing Gimp frees all of the memory, then it will work fine again for a while during use until all the free memory leaks over again, at which time she must save her work, close gimp and start again. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gimp/+bug/1242420/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
