hud-service leaks in 12.04

actually i was at 230M yesterday... i guess that is a little high indeed...

New info: When first loading Unity, hud-service takes up only 2M of RAM.

Something is definitely not getting released here.

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

I often have to reboot every day after leaving my laptop on over night (12.04 up to date). I've seen it go as high as 1.4GB for me. I use Eclipse, Chrome, and Thunderbird along with KVM for virtualization if that helps. As of this minute, my hud-service is at 457mb with an uptime of 21h, as reported by the System Monitor. System is an AMD A8-3500M laptop with 8GB RAM and AMD's fglrx driver with Catalyst 12.02.

I am teh winnar. ;)

  PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
 2998 davidb 20 0 2470m 1.7g 1496 S 1 59.8 57:36.29 hud-service

Process started on the 29th March, so only 4 days ago.

1.1 GB here after two days.

This bug was fixed in the package indicator-appmenu - 0.3.96-0ubuntu2

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indicator-appmenu (0.3.96-0ubuntu2) precise; urgency=low

  * Backport desrt's fix for a leak in the icon code (lp: #967879)
 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Mon, 02 Apr 2012 15:03:25 +0200

My machine has a 16GB big RAM. Now take a look at this:

Lokk at this: hud-service eats more memory than a Virtualbox running Windows 8. See attached.

I see that this bug is marked as fixed in 0.3.96。I'm still seeing it in 0.3.97-0ubuntu1. I have a number of Ubuntu 12.04 LTSP Fat clients, and none of them can last more than a day or two without hud-service using up all of the memory on the machine.

I'm experiencing high memory usage by hud-service process on Ubuntu 13.10 (739 MB right now).

indicator-appmenu version 13.01.0+13.10.20131031-0ubuntu1
hud version 13.10.1+13.10.20131031-0ubuntu1

@eddyg-j:
could you describe the workflow on these machines: are there a lot of applications being opened and closed constantly or are some apps running more than others?

@rutsky-vladimir:
could you please file a separate bug against hud package? https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/hud/+filebug
13.10 has a new hud package and the memory leak you are seeing most likely unrelated to 12.04 memory leak.

@kaijanmaki:
I reported separate bug:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/hud/+bug/1253593

@ryan
could you take a look at this. We have fresh reports from 12.04 users saying that hud1 is eating up their RAM.
Thanks!

we probably need a valgrind log from somebody having the issue there...

this is not a duplicate of #1253593 as the code base in 12.04 is different.

794M for me on 14.04.