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Bug 698809 - Excess memory usage, window creation after repeated connection attempts
Excess memory usage, window creation after repeated connection attempts
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 750261
Product: NetworkManager
Classification: Platform
Component: nm-applet
0.9.x
Other Linux
: Normal major
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Assigned To: NetworkManager maintainer(s)
NetworkManager maintainer(s)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2013-04-25 03:04 UTC by simon80
Modified: 2017-07-22 08:28 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
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Description simon80 2013-04-25 03:04:02 UTC 
My wireless router occasionally stops working properly, and 802.11 clients fail to connect. Yesterday, this happened while wireless was enabled in nm-applet. When I came back to my system today, I found dozens of windows open, each asking me for the wireless password. After closing the windows, I noticed that nm-applet was still consuming over 500MB of RAM.

I would expect that nm-applet should avoid opening more than one of those windows (especially for the same network), and following that code path repeatedly shouldn't result in increasing memory usage over time.

Unfortunately, I didn't think to take a core dump while restarting it, but I did take a screenshot to provide a bit of independent confirmation.
Comment 1 Beniamino Galvani 2017-07-22 08:28:23 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 750261 ***