Aptdaemon

  1. Bug #492973
  2. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 492973

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Sebastian Heinlein (glatzor) wrote : Re: aptd daemon is using too much RAM

1. aptdaemon is D-Bus activated - it only gets started on request
2. aptdaemon has got an idle time and will shutdown after some minutes of idling
3. aptdaemon does only require 26 MByte on my system
4. I am investigating threading instead of forking for the installation

Furthermore this is a bug reporting system and not a ranting forum.

There seem to be a memory leak in aptdaemon (most likely in the underlying python-apt). If you are willing to solve this bug you can write which action you performed. What is the memory consumption of aptdaemon when started from the console: sudo /usr/sbin/aptd -td