gnome-panel memory hogging resolved

[Kazutoshi Morioka]

memory hogging is occur when:
1) /usr/local is NFS mounted by autofs
2) The recentry-used-file entry exists in ~/.recentry-used

If these conditions are set, gnome-panel was woken up repeatedly about once per second.
The gnome-panel dose mmap for icon-theme.cache every time woken up, and don't munmap.
The gnome-panel will become larger until memory is exhausted.

Workaround is to stop NFS mount /usr/local by autofs.

On Fri, 1 Jul 2005 04:39:05 +0900
Kazutoshi Morioka <morioka at at.wakwak.com> wrote:

> I think gnome-panel has memory leak around icon theme cache.
> The gnome-panel mmaps icon-theme.cache files, and didn't munmap.
> For unknown reason, gnome-panel on my PC mmaps same icon-theme.cache again and again.
> Removing ~/.recently-used and ~/.gtk-bookmarks cures this situation.
> 
> On Fri, 1 Jul 2005 03:24:27 +0900
> Kazutoshi Morioka <morioka at at.wakwak.com> wrote:
> 
> > 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