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unity package

Memory leak after using files and folders ??

Bug #628588 reported by Tworkemon
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This bug affects 1 person
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Unity
Fix Released
High
Neil J. Patel
Unity 2010-09-09 "0.2.36"
unity (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
High
Canonical Desktop Experience Team
Ubuntu ubuntu-10.10
Maverick
Fix Released
High
Canonical Desktop Experience Team
Ubuntu ubuntu-10.10

Bug Description

Binary package hint: mutter

Description: Ubuntu maverick (development branch)
Release: 10.10

$ apt-cache policy mutter
mutter:
  Installed: 2.31.5-0ubuntu4
  Candidate: 2.31.5-0ubuntu4
  Version table:
 *** 2.31.5-0ubuntu4 0
        500 http://mirrors.cat.pdx.edu/ubuntu/ maverick/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Mutter seems to eat up more and more memory as times goes by. If you click on "Files and Folder" then go back to lets say terminal memory gets used more ane more as time goes by. If you do a kill -HUP mutter it goes back to normal.

Let me know how else I can provide logs/details.

Before the HUP
top - 22:46:20 up 13:50, 2 users, load average: 0.51, 0.83, 0.68
Tasks: 170 total, 1 running, 169 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 1.5%us, 1.1%sy, 0.0%ni, 97.4%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 2051152k total, 1173140k used, 878012k free, 29800k buffers
Swap: 1952764k total, 0k used, 1952764k free, 723196k cached

After the HUP
top - 22:47:04 up 13:50, 2 users, load average: 0.45, 0.77, 0.67
Tasks: 170 total, 1 running, 169 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 7.9%us, 3.3%sy, 0.0%ni, 87.4%id, 1.4%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 2051152k total, 706352k used, 1344800k free, 29956k buffers
Swap: 1952764k total, 0k used, 1952764k free, 285092k cached

Related branches

lp:ubuntu/maverick/unity
Revision history for this message
Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks) wrote :

Thanks for reporting this ug and help to make ubuntu better.

However, we need additional information to get the bug: on what do you click on Files and Folder: Unity?

Changed in mutter (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
Revision history for this message
Tworkemon (tworkemon) wrote :

Ahh sorry. Correct. This is on a netbook using the latest netbook release. If you click "Files and Folder" in the launchpad go to couple of directories then exit out of it back to the main desktop you get the symptom above. I also noticed that it does no close when we exit.

Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks)
affects: mutter (Ubuntu) → unity (Ubuntu)
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → New
Revision history for this message
Tworkemon (tworkemon) wrote :

I wonder if this is related to "604777 Unity causing massive memory leak when hovering over the "

Revision history for this message
David Barth (dbarth) wrote :

MacSlow: There seems to be another leak here. Could you take a look with your valgrind eyes and see whether it's related to the Intel one you already traced? Thanks

Changed in unity:
assignee: nobody → Mirco Müller (macslow)
assignee: Mirco Müller (macslow) → Neil J. Patel (njpatel)
importance: Undecided → High
milestone: none → 2010-09-09
Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks)
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
milestone: none → ubuntu-10.10
Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks)
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → High
Changed in unity (Ubuntu Maverick):
assignee: nobody → Canonical Desktop Experience Team (canonical-dx-team)
Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks)
Changed in unity:
status: New → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package unity - 0.2.34-0ubuntu1

---------------
unity (0.2.34-0ubuntu1) maverick; urgency=low

  * New upstream release:
    - Use gettext plural form (LP: #625199)
    - Fix newly pinned app is removed from the launcher on closing that app but
      works fine afterward (LP: #614329)
    - Fix Memory leak in places (LP: #628588)
  * remove debian/source/:
    - revert to previous format, seems to confuse daily build and we don't have
      anymore bin patch
  * remove upstreamed debian/trash.png, debian/applications.png and
    debian/files.png
  * debian/rules:
    - remove copying debian/*png
  * debian/libunity0.symbols:
    - refreshed
 -- Didier Roche <email address hidden> Fri, 03 Sep 2010 17:00:45 +0200

Changed in unity (Ubuntu Maverick):
status: New → Fix Released
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