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I am running Linux Mint 17.1 (based on Ubuntu 14.04) MATE desktop. Recently, my system slowed down and opening up system monitor revealed that some applications were eating up a tremendous amount of RAM. The culprit applications were autokey-gtk
and nm-applet
. They were crunching RAM in GBs and still increasing.
I searched on the forums and found that there have been several bug reports filed for both of them. A few of those bug reports:
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager-applet/+bug/684599 (nm-applet)
- https://code.google.com/p/autokey/issues/detail?id=43 (autokey)
- https://code.google.com/p/autokey/issues/detail?id=114 (autokey)
These bugs date back to 2011 and have not been resolved yet. But I guess, these bugs do not really belong to these applications. These applications are not culprit. Culprit must be some GTK function/library. Do you have any idea which GTK bug is causing this? Have any bug reports been filed for this? Is their any fix so far?
Moreover, this bug is not so easily reproducible. My computer had been working fine for months until I noticed this bug today. I'm still trying to find the trigger for this bug but I'm guessing it occurred when I was running VirtualBox. I'm not sure though. I will keep investigating and report the trigger for this bug.
As mentioned in my question, I investigated it using system monitor and atop and many other tools. The culprits were
autokey-gtk
andnm-applet
. – shivams – 2015-05-14T13:37:40.2231Sorry, you did not say which tools you used. I updated my reply. – jcoppens – 2015-05-14T15:13:40.123
Thanks. I'll try to apply that fix for
nm-applet
. – shivams – 2015-05-14T16:11:40.280