Possible memory leak

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
30/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
desktop, performance

Research direction

Start with sticky.py and reproduce the reported memory growth during a long-running session. Use the requested diagnostics to record whether memory increases over time and whether the behavior can be isolated; done means a reproducible diagnosis or a documented diagnostic path for the next occurrence.

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Description

I've had just a couple notes for a long while and created a couple more recently. Few paragraphs of text. I noticed sticky.py using about 1 GB of memory in Xfce's task manager. After closing and reopening, it was using 80 MB. System uptime is over 2 months and sticky.py was probably running all of that time so it seems to indicate some kind of long-running memory leak. Is there a way to get better diagnostics on this the next time I observe it?

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