Bug#408991: gnome-panel: wnck-applet eats 330MB memory

[Mark Whitis]

Package: gnome-panel
Version: 2.14.3-4
Severity: important

While investigating embarasing multisecond pauses of the entire desktop,
I noticed that wnck-applet was using 330MB of virtual memory and 200MB
of resident memory.   After killing and restarting, it was down to 
20MB/12.7MB (which still seems high for a few panel objects.
I noticed here:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-gnome/2006-May/014477.html
that wnck-applet was known for locking up the system, though in my case
the CPU usage was low (although system monitor crashed around this time
erasing the cpu load graph).

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages gnome-panel depends on:
ii  gnome-about                  2.14.3-1    The GNOME about box
ii  gnome-control-center         1:2.14.2-6  utilities to configure the GNOME d
ii  gnome-desktop-data           2.14.3-1    Common files for GNOME 2 desktop a
ii  gnome-menus                  2.16.1-2    an implementation of the freedeskt
ii  gnome-panel-data             2.14.3-4    common files for GNOME 2 panel
ii  libart-2.0-2                 2.3.17-1    Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0                  1.12.4-1    The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbonobo2-0                 2.14.0-3    Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0               2.14.0-5    The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                        2.3.6.ds1-9 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2                    1.2.4-4     The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libecal1.2-6                 1.6.3-3     Client library for evolution calen
ii  libedataserver1.2-7          1.6.3-3     Utility library for evolution data
ii  libedataserverui1.2-6        1.6.3-3     GUI utility library for evolution 
ii  libgconf2-4                  2.16.0-3    GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0                  1:2.6.0-4   library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0                 2.12.6-1    The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-desktop-2           2.14.3-1    Utility library for loading .deskt
ii  libgnome-menu2               2.16.1-2    an implementation of the freedeskt
ii  libgnome2-0                  2.16.0-2    The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomeui-0                 2.14.1-2    The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0               2.14.2-4    GNOME virtual file-system (runtime
ii  libgtk2.0-0                  2.8.20-3    The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  liborbit2                    1:2.14.4-1  libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpanel-applet2-0           2.14.3-4    library for GNOME 2 panel applets
ii  libpango1.0-0                1.14.8-3    Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libwnck18                    2.14.3-1    Window Navigator Construction Kit 
ii  libx11-6                     2:1.0.3-4   X11 client-side library
ii  libxau6                      1:1.0.1-2   X11 authorisation library
ii  menu-xdg                     0.2.3       freedesktop.org menu compliant win

Versions of packages gnome-panel recommends:
ii  evolution-data-server         1.6.3-3    evolution database backend server
ii  gnome-applets                 2.14.3-3   Various applets for GNOME 2 panel 
ii  gnome-session                 2.14.3-5   The GNOME 2 Session Manager

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