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Bug 602853 - memory leak on toggling "Activities"
memory leak on toggling "Activities"
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 595321
Product: mutter
Classification: Core
Component: general
git master
Other Linux
: Normal major
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Assigned To: mutter-maint
mutter-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2009-11-24 17:38 UTC by Matti Viljanen
Modified: 2009-11-24 22:32 UTC
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Description Matti Viljanen 2009-11-24 17:38:34 UTC 
Hello,

I am using 64-bit Ubuntu 9.10, with Ricoz PPA for Gnome Shell. I just updated packages, the version installed now is 2.28.1~14-g988d-0~ricotz1

There seems to be quite a heavy memory leak when activating and deactivating the Activities - that is, moving the mouse cursor repeatedly to upper left corner of the screen.

I noticed that my computer was actually swapping heavily after long desktop session. I checked RAM usage, and mutter topped with more than 1.2GiB! I restarted the gnome-shell ("r") and it was normal again.

I am using the following programs right now: Opera, Skype, Pidgin, Gnome-terminal, Gnome System Monitor, Thunderbird; total 6 windows on 2 desktops.

Memory usage of mutter after every 10 visits to "Activities" in MB's:
23.5 44.6 60.2 72.1
Comment 1 Owen Taylor 2009-11-24 22:32:48 UTC 
Known that more work is needed on memory leaks, don't need an individual bug for this.

(Generally something like this should be assigned to gnome-shell rather than Mutter; while the leak could be in the Mutter code, there's lots of stuff in the higher level gnome-shell that could leak.)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 595321 ***