console-kit-daemon leaks memory
Bug #232557 reported by
radsaq
This bug affects 29 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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ConsoleKit |
Confirmed
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Medium
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consolekit (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Binary package hint: consolekit
After 23 days of uptime, the console-kit-daemon process is using up 168M of memory:
root 5462 0.0 8.3 213208 172740 ? Ssl Apr28 3:53 /usr/sbin/
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed May 21 12:09:35 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/sbin/
NonfreeKernelMo
Package: consolekit 0.2.3-3ubuntu5
PackageArchitec
ProcEnviron:
SourcePackage: consolekit
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-16-generic i686
Changed in consolekit (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Changed in consolekit: | |
importance: | Unknown → Medium |
status: | Unknown → Confirmed |
Changed in consolekit: | |
importance: | Medium → Unknown |
Changed in consolekit: | |
importance: | Unknown → Medium |
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I'm using Ubuntu 9.10 (consolekit - 0.3.1-0ubuntu2) and have noticed that this daemon continually sucks up more and more physical memory over time, even when the machine is not being used.
It starts around 3.7MB, but then increases. After about 1-2 days it reaches 200MB, I presume it would continue indefinitely but I usually reboot at that point.
I am also trying to chase down another memory issue that massively impacts performance. The box has 2GB of RAM, but something somewhere seems to be using it, but it isn't accounted for anywhere. free -m indicates that it has been used (ignoring cache and buffers of course!), as does System Monitor. But adding up all the processes' Memory (in S.M.) or all the RES/RSS in ps or top falls many hundreds of MBs short, and this gap increases. Quite quickly it gets to the point where the box is swapping constantly, when the number/type/use of apps shouldn't require anything like it. I do not have any reason to assume this is related, but mention it just in case.
Last night, not long after a reboot and before going to bed: (10MB) console- kit-daemon
root 891 1.0 0.4 122652 9840 ? Ssl 21:38 0:23 /usr/sbin/
This morning after box being unused all last night: (100MB) console- kit-daemon
root 891 2.2 5.2 221388 108180 ? Ssl Jan25 13:33 /usr/sbin/