Bug#474551: gnome-applets: drivemount_applet2 uses far too much memory

[Olivier Berger]

Package: gnome-applets
Version: 2.20.1-2
Severity: important

Using top, I see :

 PID  VIRT  RES  SHR S %MEM SWAP CODE DATA COMMAND
4353  136m 7688 5756 S  1.0 129m   32 115m drivemount_appl

This process uses far too much memory... I suspect a memory leak.

xrestop doesn't show particularly important memory use, so I suppose
it's not in the GUI code itself.

This is particularly annoying on machines with limited amounts of
memory.

FYI, it is running for 8 days now...

$ ps -edf f | grep drive
olivier   4353     1  0 Mar29 ?        S      0:04 /usr/lib/gnome-applets/drivemount_applet2 --oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:GNOME_DriveMountApplet_Factory --oaf-ior-fd=49

Hope this helps.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gnome-applets depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]      1.5.20        Debian configuration management sy
ii  gconf2                     2.22.0-1      GNOME configuration database syste
ii  gnome-applets-data         2.20.1-2      Various applets for GNOME 2 panel 
ii  gnome-icon-theme           2.22.0-1      GNOME Desktop icon theme
ii  gnome-panel                2.20.3-3      launcher and docking facility for 
ii  gstreamer0.10-alsa         0.10.18-3     GStreamer plugin for ALSA
ii  gstreamer0.10-plugins-good 0.10.7-3      GStreamer plugins from the "good" 
ii  libapm1                    3.2.2-8.1     Library for interacting with APM d
ii  libatk1.0-0                1.20.0-1      The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbonoboui2-0             2.22.0-1      The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                      2.7-6         GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcpufreq0                002-7.2       shared library to deal with the cp
ii  libdbus-1-3                1.1.20-1      simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2           0.74-1        simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgconf2-4                2.22.0-1      GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0                1:2.6.2-1     library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0               2.16.1-2      The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-desktop-2         2.22.0-1      Utility library for loading .deskt
ii  libgnome2-0                2.20.1.1-1    The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomekbd1               2.20.0-1      GNOME library to manage keyboard c
ii  libgnomekbdui1             2.20.0-1      User interface library for libgnom
ii  libgnomeui-0               2.20.1.1-1    The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0             1:2.22.0-2    GNOME Virtual File System (runtime
ii  libgnomevfs2-extra         1:2.22.0-2    GNOME Virtual File System (extra m
ii  libgstreamer-plugins-base0 0.10.18-3     GStreamer libraries from the "base
ii  libgstreamer0.10-0         0.10.18-4     Core GStreamer libraries and eleme
ii  libgtk2.0-0                2.12.9-2      The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libgtop2-7                 2.22.0-1      gtop system monitoring library
ii  libgucharmap6              1:2.22.0-2    Unicode browser widget library (sh
ii  libhal1                    0.5.11~rc2-1  Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libnotify1 [libnotify1-gtk 0.4.4-3       sends desktop notifications to a n
ii  liboobs-1-3                2.20.0-1      GObject based interface to system-
ii  libpanel-applet2-0         2.20.3-3      library for GNOME Panel applets
ii  libpango1.0-0              1.20.0-1      Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libwnck22                  2.22.0-1      Window Navigator Construction Kit 
ii  libx11-6                   2:1.0.3-7     X11 client-side library
ii  libxklavier11              3.3-2         X Keyboard Extension high-level AP
ii  libxml2                    2.6.31.dfsg-2 GNOME XML library
ii  python                     2.4.4-6       An interactive high-level object-o

Versions of packages gnome-applets recommends:
ii  deskbar-applet         2.22.0.1-1        universal search and navigation ba
ii  gnome-media            2.22.0-1          GNOME media utilities
ii  gnome-netstatus-applet 2.12.1-2          Network status applet for GNOME 2
ii  gnome-system-monitor   2.22.0-1          Process viewer and system resource
ii  imagemagick            7:6.3.7.9.dfsg1-2 image manipulation programs
ii  python-gnome2          2.20.1-2          Python bindings for the GNOME desk

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