What to do to get a fix in 8.04?

[Karl Larsen]

Derek Broughton wrote:
> 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?
>   
    That work around admits that NetworkManager is eating RAM! I do not 
think that it does this if your using wired in Internet because I had my 
Hardy running for a month and it didn't eat RAM. The problem is just 
with computers using WiFi which is a small set of the whole.

    The problem is that part of NetworkManager is using code that has 
the problem. It takes a talented code writer to fix this problem which 
is expensive.

    I like the cron job fix and think it should be used in the long term 
as a fix.

Karl


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