Comment 10 for bug 184519

(In reply to comment #3)
> I experience these 63 spawned processes as well, if for nothing else
> (all CoW memory etc accounted for) it hogs the scheduler by making
> it slower to sort the CFS RB-tree which is O(log n).
>
> An Ubuntu user proposed the following patch to
> autoconfigure the maximum number of consoles from sysfs:
>
> http://launchpadlibrarian.net/15940846/0001-Autoconfigure-maximum-number-of-kernel-consoles.patch
>
> which looks sane to me.
>
> I made a graphical tool to display process migration etc in the system
> and the plethora of console-kit-daemons really cloud the view.
>

I am that user. The patch broke the logout process of Ubuntu: the
currently logged in user lost the ability to power off the system,
only logout worked.