What to do to get a fix in 8.04?

[Derek Broughton]

Karl Larsen wrote:

> Derek Broughton wrote:

>> 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! 

It certainly does.

>     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.

Well, it's pretty much a majority of laptop users, but probably still a
small percentage of the whole, but in fact it isn't even even all of those,
since I don't have a problem.  I'm suspecting, just based on the fact that
I don't use WPA on mine, that it may be encryption related - but that's a
flying leap. :-)
> 
>     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.

It does, but believe it or not they have some - and NoOp's plan to try to
track down the memory leak would make it a whole lot easier to fix.
-- 
derek