Ubuntu
gnome-power-manager package

  1. Bug #196688
  2. Comment #25

Comment 25 for bug 196688

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knarf (launchpad-ubuntu-f) wrote :

I just got bitten by this bug on Lucid. Currently gnome-power-manager uses ~120 MB resident memory after running for about two weeks:

$ ps auxw|grep gnome-power-manager|grep -v grep
frank 2735 0.0 16.1 186140 123588 ? S Apr03 8:09 gnome-power-manager

Most of that memory is used on the heap as can be seen in /proc/[pid]/smaps:

08ea5000-11d9e000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [heap]
Size: 146404 kB
Rss: 116416 kB
Pss: 116416 kB
Shared_Clean: 0 kB
Shared_Dirty: 0 kB
Private_Clean: 82896 kB
Private_Dirty: 33520 kB
Referenced: 47516 kB
Swap: 29968 kB
KernelPageSize: 4 kB
MMUPageSize: 4 kB

A 146 MB heap seems a bit overdone for a trivial program like gnome-power-manager.

This machine has gone through some updates without being rebooted. That should not be a problem - this is not Windows after all - but maybe gnome-power-manager should have been restarted after one of those updates?