What to do to get a fix in 8.04?

[Derek Broughton]

Rolf Kutz wrote:

> On 30/10/08 20:35 -0300, Derek Broughton wrote:
>>NoOp wrote:
>>> On 10/30/2008 10:06 AM, Derek Broughton wrote:
>>>> Rolf Kutz wrote:
>>https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/hardy/+source/network-manager/+bug/203016
>>>>> 
>>
>>Except that if the developers don't see it being a real usability problem
>>(it can't be happening to everyone - or if it is, it can't be an unlimited
>>memory leak) there's no way they're going to patch a stable release.
> 
> It goes up to serveral hundred megabytes until Networkmanager freezes on
> wakeup. I have to restart it regulary.

Yes, but it clearly isn't doing that to everybody (me for instance - I can
go weeks without a reboot, and when I do reboot it's always because X
failed to reset properly after hibernation).

As a workaround, what about a cron job to
do "/etc/dbus-1/event.d/25NetworkManager restart" daily?
-- 
derek