Ubuntu
unity8 package

memory leak

Bug #1659255 reported by Michael Zanetti on 2017-01-25

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	unity8 (Ubuntu)	Triaged	High	Unassigned

Bug Description

Not having looked into what exactly uses it, but after keeping unity8 running over night, it consumes over 5GB of memory.

Michał Sawicz (saviq) on 2017-01-25

Changed in unity8 (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Triaged

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kevin gunn (kgunn72) wrote on 2017-01-25:

curious - is this zesty? or xenial+overlay?
also, is this debs or snaps?

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Michael Zanetti (mzanetti) wrote on 2017-01-25:

I observed this with x+o, deb based.

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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote on 2017-01-26:

Try a heap profiler. The problem with high memory usage is that it's often just indefinitely bloat and not a permanent 'leak'. This means the program still has enough smarts to free it all on shutdown and no leak checker will tell you what the problem was. But while it's running it's still too big. So use a heap profiler...

http://valgrind.org/docs/manual/ms-manual.html
https://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse326/05wi/valgrind-doc/ms_main.html