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Seems to remember every single network adapter, including ephemeral ones #557
Description
Has this issue been covered in the Wiki?
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Is there an existing issue reported already?
- I have searched the existing issues, it does not exist.
What is the unexpected behavior?
On a long session without rebooting, I started and stopped docker stacks a lot of times, which creates br-* and veth* networks every time. These keep piling up in Vitals, to the point that just trying to open the list of networks or scrolling through the list causes full-system stalls:
These should get cleaned up if they no longer exist.
Also, notice the 94 MB/s, which is a nonsense number, it's totaling a lot of the network adapters that no longer exist.
Steps to reproduce the unexpected behavior.
up and down a docker compose stack that binds ports to the host like 100 times, see that a ton of networks are kept in Vitals.
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What distribution and version of Linux are you using?
Ubuntu 26.04
What version of Gnome are you using?
50.0
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[-]Seems to remember every single networking, including ephemeral ones[/-][+]Seems to remember every single network adapter, including ephemeral ones[/+]ThorOdinson246 commentedon Aug 9, 2026
I opened #577 for this. It drops an interface from the menu and from the rx/tx totals once it's gone from
/sys/class/net.I ran into the same thing with VPN tunnels rather than Docker, so it's not specific to
br-*/veth*. Basically, anything transient piles up the same way.