cosmic-applet-time memory leak, soft-locks system until automatically killed

[Seltonu]

Reliably after a few hours using my system for general web browsing/coding, the cosmic-applet-time suddenly begins to take up all available system memory. I can tell when it's happening because my laptop fans begin to spin up to max and my CPU begins to throttle heavily, I imagine something is causing an infinite loop. My laptop also draws ~50w during this time when typical is closer to 15w

Generally after about a minute of this my system will soft-lock completely (unable to move mouse, etc.) until the applet gets automatically killed. If I am quick enough to kill the time applet I can prevent the soft lockup and my system will return to normal, however the time applet is of course gone from the panel.

Here is a screenshot I manage to get quickly before lockup. Happy to do any additional testing, I can reproduce reliably but randomly. Has been happening for at least about ~2 weeks now

[git-f0x]

What version of cosmic-applets do you have?

[Seltonu]

@git-f0x apt info cosmic-applets returns:

Package: cosmic-applets
Version: 0.1.0~1732049781~24.04~1e99f2c

I manually check for updates and reboot 1-2x a day, currently up to date

[joshuamegnauth54]

Related:

• [bug] Every cosmic-applet in use is consuming 300 Mb of RAM memory. cosmic-applets#723
• [Request] Lighter minimum RAM useage. #1252

[joshuamegnauth54]

Actually this looks to be more specific to time. 🤔 You might want to check the first issue I mentioned above to see if you can provide extra info there.

[wash2]

This is most likely fixed if you try the latest commit from cosmic-panel

[Seltonu]

Apologies for the delayed response, I've been waiting to collect more info on this the next time it happens and it just... never happened again 😅 I think you may have been right @wash2 , this was likely fixed shortly after I posted this. Closing this issue!