"updates_available" feature floods PackageKit with requests
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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byobu |
New
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Undecided
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byobu (Fedora) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
This feature, enabled by default on many operating system configurations, calls "pkcon get-updates" every second. This is a heavy call that uses quite a bit of CPU and also floods journald with logs.
The exact place this happens is here:
https:/
The recommendation of the PackageKit maintainer is:
"The smart way is do GetUpdates on coldplug and then watch for the UpdatesChanged signal."
This was actually quite hard to debug! I originally opened an issue for this on PackageKit, which eventually led me to Byobu. You can see the maintainer's response and whole thread here:
https:/
I have the same problem