Comment 2 for bug 232557

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)
root 891 1.0 0.4 122652 9840 ? Ssl 21:38 0:23 /usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon

This morning after box being unused all last night: (100MB)
root 891 2.2 5.2 221388 108180 ? Ssl Jan25 13:33 /usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon