avahi-daemon consumes lot a CPU in crowded enviroments

Bug #1073150 reported by Jean-Baptiste Lallement
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
ubuntu-nexus7
Confirmed
Low
Unassigned
avahi (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Medium
Unassigned

Bug Description

In crowded environment (currently UDS) avahi-daemon is always in the top 5 processes sorted by CPU usage.
It's a problem on the Nexus7 since on this platform it often uses between 10% to 25% CPU (according to top)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: avahi-daemon 0.6.31-1ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-17.28-generic 3.5.5
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-17-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu6
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Oct 30 14:13:19 2012
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-10-08 (21 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Beta i386 (20121008)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: avahi
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

Revision history for this message
Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel) wrote :
Revision history for this message
Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel) wrote :

Added a task for Nexus7 since it's a real issue on this platform.

Matt Fischer (mfisch)
Changed in ubuntu-nexus7:
status: New → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → Low
Changed in avahi (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
status: Incomplete → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → Critical
importance: Critical → Medium
tags: added: mobile nexus7
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