Prep:
Grab myutils from lp:~davmor2/+junk/testscripts
From xpresser/xp_trial run import myutils
Run it against software center with myutils.statinfo('software-center')
Steps:
1. Open USC give it about 20secs it will level out at about 170 meg
2. Click on an app run myutils.statinfo('software-center')
3. Click on All Software and run myutils.statinfo('software-center')
4. Click on a different app and run myutils.statinfo('software-center')
5. Click on All Software and run myutils.statinfo('software-center')
6. Click on the same app again and run myutils.statinfo('software-center')
My assumption is that the webkit display isn't dropping info once the page is no longer displayed.
This is good for speed returning to a page but is drastically increasing the memory footprint of USC when searching through a selection of apps for a new user not familiar with the application names.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: software-center 5.3.14.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-16.24-generic 3.5.4
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-16-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.5.3-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Sep 29 09:37:21 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Beta amd64 (20120926)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
TERM=xterm
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: software-center
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
Thanks for your bugreport.
I can reproduce this in quanal. This is made more complicated by the fact that I get a increase in the reported memory
just by scrolling the up-and-down in the lobbyview while there are no objects reported in the garbage collector (gc).
Even when disabling all custom drawing and all size-allocaiton signals.