[CentOS] gigantic memory leak in Clock Applet...

Mon Jan 7 15:00:53 UTC 2013
m.roth at 5-cent.us <m.roth at 5-cent.us>

ken wrote:
>> On Sun, Jan 06, 2013 at 06:23:20PM -0500, ken wrote:
>>> On 01/06/2013 05:18 PM fred smith wrote:
>>>> On Sun, Jan 06, 2013 at 02:43:09PM -0500, ken wrote:
>>>>> On 01/06/2013 09:55 AM fred smith wrote:
>>>>>> On Sun, Jan 06, 2013 at 06:33:07AM -0500, ken wrote:
>>>>>>> Fred,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Also running an up-to-date 5.8 but with just 2G of RAM,
>>>>>>> clock-applet consumes the following:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> PID USER PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
>>>>>>> 4133 me  15   0 29568 3748 2944 S  0.0  0.2 190:51.33 clock-applet
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>>>> it's the same version and size as yours, but the md5sum differs. have
>>>> you perhaps disabled prelink? (I don't call that I have ever done so)
>>>> It's not obvious to me what other (legitimate) event would account for
>>>> the difference in checksum.
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I've not been in this thread, but the above cmt *deeply* disturbs me. I'd
start by yum remove the package with the applet and reinstall... after
double checking what mirror it's getting the package from.

Yes, an infected repo is what's running through my mind, or a hijacked URL.

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