Update-notifier triggers an aptdaemon launch on start up
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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aptdaemon (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Low
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Unassigned | ||
Maverick |
Invalid
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Low
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Unassigned | ||
update-notifier (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Low
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Unassigned | ||
Maverick |
Fix Released
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: aptdaemon
Just after logging in. I need to launch my applications.
However aptd is running at the same time and it is consuming a lot of memory.
This can lead my system to swap memory to my disk and thus it slows down the whole system.
This gives the end user the feeling that the system has a slow startup. The startup is slower with Xubuntu/
I don't know the underlying but I think there are 3 issues which makes each other have more consequences :
- does atpd consume too much memory (isn't it a memory leak, poor optimization, ... ) ?
- does atpd needs to be launched just after logging in ?
- more memory consumption means more data to be read from the disk while loading the program (thus increasing the cache memory consumption and increasing the startup time)
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: aptdaemon 0.11+bzr345-
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri May 28 21:13:37 2010
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100427.1)
PackageArchitec
ProcEnviron:
LANG=fr_FR.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: aptdaemon
Related branches
- Dennis Kaarsemaker: Pending requested
- Diff: 0 lines
summary: |
- aptd triggers memory swap just after the startup + Aptdaemon gets started by an unknown application at login |
Changed in update-notifier (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Low |
Changed in aptdaemon (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Low |
status: | Confirmed → Invalid |
Changed in update-notifier (Ubuntu Maverick): | |
status: | Confirmed → Fix Committed |
Aptdaemon should only be started on request by software-center and not by default on startup.
What does a lot of memory mean? Perhaps you should use Synaptic instead of software-center on your 10 years (?) old machine.
Are you familiar with the terminal? Could you switch to a terminal before the graphical login and check if aptd is already running?