Fedora
consolekit package

  1. Bug #148454
  2. Comment #29

Comment 29 for bug 148454

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Loye Young (loyeyoung) wrote : Re: console-kit-deamon spawns too many threads

I've written an email to the author of ConsoleKit inquiring about the issue. What follows is the text of my correspondence:

<quote>
>Mr. McCann,
>
>Users on Ubuntu systems (myself included) are finding that ConsoleKit generates several dozen processes and doesn't seem to release them.
>Although no one of the processes takes up much memory or state, the aggregate amount is significant, especially on resource constrained
>systems.
>
>Is this expected behavior? If yes, could you shed some light on why so many processes and threads need to remain open? If no, do you have any
>idea whether the problem is in ConsoleKit or in the Ubuntu implementation of ConsoleKit?
>
>From what I've read about ConsoleKit, it seems to be a sensible solution to managing users and hardware access for desktop and other GUI
>applications. However, the sheer number of running processes has many asking whether the game is worth the candle. Your guidance on the
>relative benefits and costs and on expected implementation of ConsoleKit would be much appreciated.
>
>See the forum discussion at http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-556272.html, and the bug report at
>https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/consolekit/+bug/148454.
 </quote>

Happy Trails,

Loye Young