Geoclue 2 very high memory usage

[Hugh Wormington]

After geoclue 2 running at high CPU for some minutes I found CPU usage had dropped to zero but geoclue was still hogging a whopping 11GB of memory (the PC has 16GB). I stopped the geoclue service to recover the memory.

Kubuntu 18.04

$ apt-cache policy geoclue-2.0
geoclue-2.0:
  Installed: 2.4.7-1ubuntu1
  Candidate: 2.4.7-1ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 2.4.7-1ubuntu1 500
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Happy to provide other info on request.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Andrew Gaul (gaul)]

Using Fedora 31 with geoclue2-2.5.5-1.fc31 I also see an RSS of over 3 GB. gnome-shell is using almost as much; perhaps these are related?

USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
geoclue 1520 0.3 19.3 7513496 3139312 ? Ssl Oct03 129:56 /usr/libexec/geoclue
gaul 1850 1.8 15.5 5809552 2533988 ? Ssl Oct03 766:09 /usr/bin/gnome-shell

[Andrew Gaul (gaul)]

Oddly my system reports 2.5.5 installed but 2.5.3 active:

$ /usr/libexec/geoclue --version
2.5.3

It appears 2.5.4 and 2.5.5 address some memory leaks:

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/geoclue/geoclue/issues/120

[Ian Turner (vectro)]

I saw this issue using geoclue-2.0 2.5.3-1ubuntu1 on eoan.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Is anyone still seeing that issue in focal?