7.10: very high memory use on startup by SCIM

Another note for the 2 scim-launcher: they have following popup comments:

running one: usr/usr/scim-1.0/scim-launcher -d -c simple -e all -f socket --no-stay
sleeping one: usr/usr/scim-1.0/scim-launcher -d -c simple -e all -f x11

right now "update-notifier" eats up all RAM.

Let me know if you need any supporting information. If you need logfiles then let me know how to find or get them as I am not a linux expert.

Once my system was suddenly down because of power fail.
When I restarted my computer,
everything is all-right but scim
either scim-bridge or scim-helper eats up all my RAM

After I removed the ~/.scim/ directory
It became OK again

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Can you try with latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to New. Thanks again!.

This bug happened to me once or twice (I am not sure if they were the same bug).

The first time, I was using Ubuntu Intrepid + Xubuntu Desktop. It once crashed for no obvious reasons. After rebooting, Xfce ran emtremely slow. It took about 20 minute to display the desktop, with blanks here and there, totally unusable. I simply formatted the whole partition then, as I didn't want to bother with unknown bugs.

The second time, just now, I was using a clean installed Xubuntu Intrepid. Right after I rebooted with Chinese language support (with input methods, basic translations and additional fonts) installed, it became very slow again, but not as slow as the first time it had been. SCIM seemed to eat up all RAM and SWAP space. I took quite some time to undo the install, and the speed restored.

There's one thing that might be related. I had been annoyed with the double-SCIM-instance problem. Someone told me that I could modify the first line in /etc/scim/global (which is "/SupportedUnicodeLocales = en_US.UTF-8" by default) to use the desired locale so that only one instance of SCIM would be launched. It had worked before, but it could be the culprit here.

Another report with some new information.

However, what is the "the missing information" anyway?

Putting this under the scim package so wiser eyes can take a look.

In the meantime, can you try testing this issue on the newest release, Ubuntu 9.4 (Jaunty Jackalope). Thanks in advance.

Should be marked Incomplete when waiting for information or a response. Thank you. :)

Thank you for reporting. I think this may be fixed in 1.4.9 which is about to be released in Karmic. Please verify.

https://launchpad.net/~r0lf/+archive/hardy/+sourcepub/678492/+listing-archive-extra

Anybody still see this issue even with 1.4.9?

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!