Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: notify-osd
Ever since upgrading to Ubuntu 9.10, I found that these programs, which
I believe are closely related, leak a lot of memory over time:
/usr/lib/notify-osd/notify-osd
/usr/lib/indicator-applet/indicator-applet
--oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:GNOME_IndicatorApplet_Factory --oaf-ior-fd=32
E.g., after a day, each of the above consumes many hundreds of MB in the
resident set size (and even more in the virtual memory size). I usually
just send SIGTERM to both; after killing notify-osd, I am prompted to
restart the program (don't quite remember what the dialog box says, but
the button to hit is Reload). The programs restart with small memory
usage again.
Not sure if it matters, but I use Pidgin, and I leave it running all the
time. My understanding is that notify-osd is the program that draws
those pop-up notifications whenever signs on/off, and AFAIK Pidgin is
the only program that I ever see these pop-up notifications from.
$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 9.04
Release: 9.04
$ uname -a
Linux yang-xps410 2.6.28-11-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 17 01:58:03 UTC 2009
x86_64 GNU/Linux
$ apt-cache policy notify-osd
notify-osd:
Installed: 0.9.11-0ubuntu3
Candidate: 0.9.11-0ubuntu3
Version table:
*** 0.9.11-0ubuntu3 0
500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
** Affects: notify-osd (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Memory leak in notify-osd in Jaunty
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/378193
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