** Description changed: According to GNOME System Monitor, the cpufreq-applet I have in the top panel of GNOME is currently using 376MB of RAM, after 8 hours uptime. At - system start it's more respectable, in the single digits, the amount of + system start it's more respectable, in the single digits. The amount of memory it uses gradually climbs as I leave the system on longer. If I hover over one of the icons, left-click or right-click, the RAM use goes - up by a few hundred kilobytes. Opening 'About' or 'Preferences' make sit + up by a few hundred kilobytes. Opening 'About' or 'Preferences' makes it jump even more. There are 4 instances of the applet, one for each of the two (hyperthreaded) cores; the system is a Thinkpad T420, with a dual- - core Intel i5-2520M processor. + core Intel i5-2520M processor. Removing one instance of the applet does + nothing, removing all of them results in the RAM use dropping to zero. This is on Ubuntu 16.04.1, all updates installed, using the version of gnome-applets which is in the default Ubuntu repositories.
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