[Bug 397544] Re: Big apt-check memory leak

[Robert Roth]

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** Changed in: update-notifier (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

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Title:
  Big apt-check memory leak

Status in “update-notifier” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: update-notifier-common

  Since yesterday I'm experimenting big system slowdowns. I did my
  research and found out that the programs that were causing it were
  update-apt-xapi and apt-check. I see there is a bug report filed
  against the first one (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt-
  xapian-index/+bug/363695), but not for the second one. See this
  screenshot: http://launchpadlibrarian.net/28844564/memoryleak.png .
  Both processes eat up almost all the computer memory.

  Package: update-notifier-common, v. 0.76.7
  Ubuntu release: 9.04
  Computer: HP Pavilion, 1.8 GHz Core 2 Duo, 3 GB RAM.

  What to do to reproduce the bug:

  1. Open Synaptic/Update Manager
  2. Check for updates/install new software
  3. When the check/install is finished, update-apt-xapi and apt-check show up and cause extreme slowdown. (It even caused a total hang to my computer and I had to use the Alt-SysReq-REISUB trick to get it working again). Nothing like that used to happen before. I don't remember if those packages were updated recently.

  I have already removed the apt-xapian-index package, but apt-check is
  still causing trouble (I can't remove it because network-manager and
  network-manager-gnome will be removed too if I do so). If any other
  information is needed, please tell me.

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