Bad memory leak

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Ubuntu 9.10 (64-bit)
Global Menu Bar 0.7.9-0ubuntu1~ppa1~karmic1

Global Menu Bar is leaking memory for me. It's currently using 421MB and it
just gets more day by day.

I have done nothing but installed it from the repo and used it.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by 58desi...@gmail.com on 4 Jan 2010 at 3:57

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Same here. How can I help? Life sucks without globalmenu.

--Gene

Original comment by selko...@gmail.com on 11 Mar 2010 at 1:55

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first kill GlobalMenu.PanelApplet, ignore the gnome error dialog,
start the applet with valgrind:
valgrind --leak-check=full GlobalMenu.PanelApplet --log-file=vallog
count seconds till 10 so that the applet is fully loaded
back to the error dialog and click reload.

Now use the applet(it will become ridiculously slow until the memory leak 
becomes 
noticeable.

break valgrind and post vallog here. Or study the log, fix the leak and post a 
patch here. 
I'll be more than happy to merge it to the git.

Original comment by rainwood...@gmail.com on 11 Mar 2010 at 2:13

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I'm using gnome-applet-globalmenu 0.7.9-0ubuntu1~ppa1~lucid2 from the 
globalmenu-team PPA on Lucid 64bit (2x AMD Opteron Dual-Core = 4 cores).

Here at work I have the memory leak problem. After about 2 hours working in 
various programs, the GlobalMenu process consumes hundreds of MB RAM and if I 
don't kill/reload it, it will become slower and slower until even X freezes 
while waiting for GlobalMenu to switch the menu. It seems like it grows ~1MB 
when switching from one program to another.

At home, I don't have these problems (mostly same software-configuration on an 
Intel Core 2 Quad).

I attached the vallog as you requested.

Original comment by mbi...@gmail.com on 19 Jul 2010 at 12:46

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• vallog.log

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Same problem here. It may use 700 Mo...
I have Ubuntu 10.04 64bit

Original comment by math...@gmail.com on 20 Jul 2010 at 9:56

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same problem here. Memory usage keeps increasing till memory is exhausted. 
ubuntu 10.04 32 bit , 1 gb Ram.

Original comment by jfr...@in.com on 25 Aug 2010 at 4:14

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Could you people check whether you have the package appmenu-gtk installed? From 
reading at 
http://www.webupd8.org/2010/07/nautilus-memory-leak-fix-ubuntu-1004.html this 
might be the source of the problem. I just uninstalled it here and now 
GlobalMenu doesn't slow down anymore...

Original comment by mbi...@gmail.com on 9 Sep 2010 at 9:07