NetworkManager leaking memory - badly

After 1hr uptime:

Code:

[user@lavalle online-updater]$ ps ufax | grep nm-applet
root      2399  1.5 17.2 164380 87196 ?        Sl   20:33   0:53 /usr/bin/nm-applet

87MB! Growing constantly.

Any ideas? I ran the Acer updater - which did update the NetworkManager packager, but it has made no difference.

 

is this using wirless?

I'm using wired networking now and I don't hav such a huge memory usage..

Code:

[user@localhost ~]$ ps ufax | grep nm-applet
root      2580  0.4  2.9  90276 14892 ?        Sl   13:27   0:17 /usr/bin/nm-applet

and this stays stable

Hannes

 

I noticed this today. Up to this point I just used the LAN, fine, today I botched a connection to the WLAN, the network needed the MAC address whitelisted and my Acer wasnt on the whitelist yet. The system froze, and was not the same after a hard reboot: taking longer to boot and shut down, with the network manager loading to the taskbar very slowly indeed.

My solution (early days, I had very little installed on the machine): system restore.

Hopefully its a bug that will be addressed soon.

 

Ditching the Linpus NetworkManager package for the standard Fedora one seems to have fixed this:

Code:

sudo yum update NetworkManager -y

Obviously this will break the acer update process, so beware.