NetworkManager memory leak?

[Guest]

I'm on a macbook pro, and after about 6 hours after startup, the machine starts to lug down, and eventually just freezes. I figured out after killing KDE and jumping to a virtual terminal that NetworkManager was over 500meg in memory size! I just ran top after noticing sluggish behavior, and again NetworkManager is 567m resident and 2306m virtual! Holy cow!

Anyone know how to:
a)restart it
b) fix the problem
c) where to report the bug if this is not the correct place

Thanks!

[dibl]

Re: NetworkManager memory leak?

You can open the Konsole and enter

top

to see what is sucking up your CPU resources.

On KDE 4.1 Beta, I'm finding a "kdesu" process running one of my cores up to 100% and staying there, for example. So I kill the process.

[kubicle]

Re: NetworkManager memory leak?

I'm on a macbook pro, and after about 6 hours after startup, the machine starts to lug down, and eventually just freezes. I figured out after killing KDE and jumping to a virtual terminal that NetworkManager was over 500meg in memory size! I just ran top after noticing sluggish behavior, and again NetworkManager is 567m resident and 2306m virtual! Holy cow!

There is a memory leak bug in NetworkManager, and I remember it being already reported on launchpad, but it doesn't hurt to check.

Anyone know how to:
a)restart it
b) fix the problem
c) where to report the bug if this is not the correct place

a) One way is to use the following commands:

sudo killall NetworkManager
sudo NetworkManager

b) It's a problem with the program code, don't know of a workaround
c) Launchpad (check first if it's already reported to avoid duplicate reports)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu