On Mon, 22 Apr 2013 12:55:00 -0400
Przemek Klosowski <przemek.klosowski(a)nist.gov> wrote:
I reported the large memory leak in clock-applet:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=952763
(TLDR: clock-applet grows by 1GB/day when reporting weather)
Ouch. Until this is fixed, I duct-taped around by adding this
line to cron:
*/5 * * * * /home/conrad/kill_clock_applet_leak.sh
Script:
#!/bin/bash
memused="`ps auxwww|grep clock-ap[p]let | awk '{ print $6 }'`"
if [[ $memused -gt 250000 ]]; then
memhuman="$((memused/1024))"
echo "Clock-applet using $memhuman MB, killing panel"
pkill gnome-panel
fi
It's ugly and dumb, but should prevent run-away stupidity...
(kills at 250MB RSS).
Conrad