High heap memory usage

[somakd]

Expected behaviour

RAM usage should stay more less constant.

Actual behaviour

Initial RAM usage at around 60MB. Within a day, RAM usage increases to 2GB. Current screenshot produced when mate-panel was using 440MB.

Steps to reproduce the behaviour

Normal continuous use for a day.

MATE general version

1.22.2

Package version

1.22.2-1

Linux Distribution

Linux 5.3.12-1-MANJARO #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Nov 21 10:55:53 UTC 2019 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Link to downstream report of your Distribution

[somakd]

Upon running
mate-panel --replace &
the memory usage drops back to normal.

[lukefromdc]

We have similar prior reports
#809 for applets built in-process
#738 another high RAM use report
and even
#115
from all the way back in 2013 (so this is an old problem, possibly
inherited from gnome-panel 2.32 or earlier

Unfortunately there is so much complexity and enough memory leaks in the panel to make Valgrind (useful for finding memory leaks) hard to use. It slows the panel to a near stop and when I got it to work I could never get a full set of results and was "spammed" with so much text. In additon, anything out of process claims the memory use for itself, while in-process it is mate-panel RAM usage

[somakd]

Gotcha. Thanks.
So I've added a kronjob for running mate-panel --replace > /dev/null 2>&1 every 30 minutes. A dirty solution to a nasty problem.

[rcaridade145]

What applets have you got in the panel? @lukefromdc there is a report concerning the clock applet and timezones from gnome panel https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=688967

[raveit65]

Does the issue still exists with current master or >= mate-panel-1.24.1 ?

[somakd]

Don't know. I moved to Openbox the very next day.

[raveit65]

Bye Bye