dbus-daemon memory usage grows

[Nold]

My computer has been running for an hour now and the memory usage of dbus-daemon keeps growing. as of this writing it is 271mb memory usage under the res column in top.

This has grown from < 50 mb at boottime.

I guess this is a bug in dbus.

> apt-cache policy dbus
dbus:
  Installed: 1.1.2-1ubuntu2
  Candidate: 1.1.2-1ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 1.1.2-1ubuntu2 0
        500 http://dk.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

> cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=8.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=hardy
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu hardy (development branch)"

Arnold Skimminge

[Nold (arnold-skimminge)]

now 2 hours later it has grown to 671mb

[Michael (m-gruys)]

Something strange about this dbus-daemon proces.
It appears very many times in the memory.
an ps -efH command shows more than 15000 times the same proces:
dbus-daemon --fork --print-address 17 --print-pid 19 --session
The machine is up for more than 40 days...
Is this normal?

[Bono Lv (bonolv)]

i upgrade my box from 7.10. after almost successful upgrade . i can't start my f-spot ,more terrorable is. my memory eaten by this fail.

i check the problem for sometime. and find it's cause by 10K＋ dbus-daemon process been create by f-spot start abort.

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$ apt-cache policy dbus
dbus:
  Installed: 1.1.20-1ubuntu1
  Candidate: 1.1.20-1ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 1.1.20-1ubuntu1 0
        500 http://common.rdev.kingsoft.net hardy/main Packages (trusted local mirror)
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

$ apt-cache policy f-spot
f-spot:
  Installed: 0.4.2-1ubuntu3
  Candidate: 0.4.2-1ubuntu3
  Version table:
 *** 0.4.2-1ubuntu3 0
        500 http://common.rdev.kingsoft.net hardy/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

$ cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=8.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=hardy
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 8.04"

[Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott)]

Could you please confirm whether you are still seeing this problem, and if so, on which Ubuntu release

[Nold (arnold-skimminge)]

I dont see the bug anymore

2009/7/15 Scott James Remnant <email address hidden>:
> Could you please confirm whether you are still seeing this problem, and
> if so, on which Ubuntu release
>
> ** Changed in: dbus (Ubuntu)
>   Importance: Undecided => High
>
> ** Changed in: dbus (Ubuntu)
>       Status: New => Incomplete
>
> --
> dbus-daemon memory usage grows
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/196940
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> of the bug.
>

[Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott)]

Thanks for confirming, closing this one out

[Bill Yiannakos (billyiannakos)]

I am having this bug on 9.04!
My PC is open for 3 days now and d-bus daemon is very top on memory usage, with 1.6 GiB (!!!!) of memory!!

[sacredfaith (praiseresound)]

I am observing this bug on 9.10
dbus-daemon taking up to 50% of my CPU. This is listed as a daemon that controls one to one communication between programs...I have dropbox running, anyone else seeing this in conjunction with dropbox?