Same issue here with gnome-power-manager, except I noticed it out of control before it really sucked me dry. I had to force-kill it using kill -9.
Information: # uname -a Linux sirius 2.6.22-8-generic #1 SMP Thu Jul 12 15:59:45 GMT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux # dpkg -s gnome-power-manager Package: gnome-power-manager Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: gnome Installed-Size: 9616 Maintainer: Oliver Grawert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: i386 Version: 2.19.5-0ubuntu1 I can't provide memory usage info about it at the moment but will watch for it to happen again and will report more. -- gnome-power-manager sometimes starts using all RAM https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/125999 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs