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indicator-multiload package

System load indicator leaks memory

Bug #1049282 reported by arty on 2012-09-11

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #905854: memory leak in unity-2d-panel and indicator-multiload. Edit Remove

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This bug affects 20 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	indicator-multiload (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

I'm using system load indicator on two computers (i386/amd64) with latest ubuntu+updates. On both of them after a day or two indicator-multiload process consumes several hundreds megabytes. What additional information I can provide to help you investigate that issue?

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: indicator-multiload 0.2-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-30.48-generic 3.2.27
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-30-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu13
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Sep 11 19:53:17 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release i386 (20111012)
SourcePackage: indicator-multiload
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-05-20 (114 days ago)

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arty (me-arty) wrote on 2012-09-11:

#1

Dependencies.txt Edit (2.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcEnviron.txt Edit (264 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2012-09-26:

#2

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in indicator-multiload (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

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GouZi (jalliot) wrote on 2012-09-26:

#3

I see ~0.1MB leaked every ~10sec, by the indicator-multiload process.
Running 12.04 x86_64.

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GouZi (jalliot) wrote on 2012-09-27:

#4

Valgrind dump Edit (1.3 MiB, text/plain)

Attached valgrind dump.

Please feel free to let me know if other tools can be run to help pin-point this issue.

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GouZi (jalliot) wrote on 2012-09-27:

#5

FWIW, it happens with:
$ apt-cache policy indicator-multiload
indicator-multiload:
  Installed: 0.3-0+66~32~17~precise1
  Candidate: 0.3-0+66~32~17~precise1
  Version table:
*** 0.3-0+66~32~17~precise1 0
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/indicator-multiload/stable-daily/ubuntu/ precise/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     0.2-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/universe amd64 Packages

But not with:
$ apt-cache policy indicator-multiload
indicator-multiload:
  Installed: 0.2-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 0.2-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
*** 0.2-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

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GouZi (jalliot) wrote on 2012-09-27:

#6

Actually, I take that back. If it seems better with 0.2-0ubuntu1 there's still a leak. :/

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GouZi (jalliot) wrote on 2012-10-11:

#7

Changing the "System monitor width" seems to make things better.
Though it's not completely fixed with this workaround, as I can notice a leak at a rate of ~0.1MB/10min (compared to the 0.1MB/10sec before...).

https://bugs.launchpad.net/indicator-multiload/+bug/779717/comments/54

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Id2ndR (id2ndr) wrote on 2012-10-23:

#8

Indicator-multiload memory leak.svg Edit (11.5 KiB, image/svg+xml)

It consumes up top 0.5MB/min on my computer. See attached graph of RSS memory usage.

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sds (sds-gnu) wrote on 2012-11-02:

#9

how is this different from #956810 & #905854?

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