Ubuntu
pcsc-lite package

  1. Bug #1551897
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Comment 0 for bug 1551897

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Casey Marshall (cmars) wrote :

In xenial, pcscd CPU utilization occasionally goes haywire:

  PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
27404 root 20 0 384264 4992 2228 S 100.3 0.0 75:39.03 /usr/sbin/pcscd --foreground --auto-exit

I get this about once a day since installing xenial. I can't quite connect it to any specific event on the system, it just seems to happen sporadically -- fan turns on, I run top, and there it is again.

Never had this issue on same hardware incl. smartcard with trusty.

I wonder if it might be this? https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=718473