[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#766762: upower: fatal memory leak on low battery

[intrigeri]

Hi,

Michael Banck wrote (25 Oct 2014 15:09:35 GMT) :
> twice now my notebook grinded to a halt cause upowerd consumed more than
> 1.5G of memory:

> 27460 root   20   0 1947396 1.630g   1396 S   0.0 45.7   2:18.29 upowerd

> This appears to happen when the battery is running very low and upowerd
> needs to kick in.

Same here: upower's memory usage starts growing pretty fast once my
battery gets as low as 5%.

> This seems to be a known bug upstream:
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=82659

> And a (draft) patch exists:
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=105169
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=105170

I'm currently testing with these patches applied locally on top of
sid's upower 0.99.1-3. I'll report back (here and to upstream) how
it goes.

Cheers,
--
intrigeri