gnome-panel memory hogging and always running

[Kazutoshi Morioka]

Hello.
I found that gnome-panel got a lot of memory, and getting larger and larger.
I also found that gnome-panel is always running in idle state.
What is this? This is current state.

# ps alx|(head -1;grep gnome-panel)
F   UID   PID  PPID PRI  NI    VSZ   RSS WCHAN  STAT TTY        TIME COMMAND
0   501  2768     1  15   0 347488 180152 stext Ssl  ?          0:23 gnome-panel
--sm-client-id default2
# ps alx|(head -1;grep gnome-panel)
F   UID   PID  PPID PRI  NI    VSZ   RSS WCHAN  STAT TTY        TIME COMMAND
0   501  2768     1  16   0 366512 190228 stext Ssl  ?          0:25 gnome-panel
--sm-client-id default2
# ps alx|(head -1;grep gnome-panel)
F   UID   PID  PPID PRI  NI    VSZ   RSS WCHAN  STAT TTY        TIME COMMAND
0   501  2768     1  15   0 376144 195364 stext Ssl  ?          0:25 gnome-panel
--sm-client-id default2
# rpm -q gnome-panel
gnome-panel-2.10.1-10.1