[Bug 361287] Re: Apport ("Report a bug") uses insane amount of memory

[Marcus Tomlinson]

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** Changed in: apport (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

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Title:
  Apport ("Report a bug") uses insane amount of memory

Status in apport package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: apport

  While reporting this bug, using apport-gtk (through "/usr/share/apport/apport-gtk -f -p apport"), it uses a huge amount of memory:
  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
  15263 daniel    20   0  751m 657m 9112 S    0 21.8   0:08.55 apport-gtk
  15657 daniel    20   0  751m 649m  784 S    0 21.5   0:00.07 apport-gtk

  Yes, according to pstree, these two processes belong to the single instance of creating one report.
    bash---apport-gtk---apport-gtk---kfmclient---{kfmclient}

  I've noticed this with apport-qt (launched through ubuntu-bug), when
  reporting 3 bugs simultaneously made the system start swapping.

  ProblemType: Bug
  Architecture: i386
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  Package: apport 1.0-0ubuntu4
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   SHELL=/bin/bash
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
   LANGUAGE=
  SourcePackage: apport
  Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic i686

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