GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 764483
Evidence of memory leaks by the 1000 slaves test
Last modified: 2016-04-04 21:30:39 UTC
NetworkManager RSS grows by 40M when 1000 devices are enslaved to a bridge and then bridge removed and the devices removed too. Should ideally be addressed before 1.2.0.
This problem has been fixed in the unstable development version. The fix will be available in the next major software release. You may need to upgrade your Linux distribution to obtain that newer version.
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/commit/?id=9498ea507eb1d5042736c4351337e91b9c13bdf6