polkitd Memory leak / cpu leak
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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policykit-1 (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: policykit-1
Process polkitd get more and more cpu and memory leak.
'lsb_release -rd =>
Tasks: 184 total, 3 running, 181 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 0.0%us, 2.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 98.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 4059252k total, 3402352k used, 656900k free, 40904k buffers
Swap: 9767484k total, 26900k used, 9740584k free, 489040k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
15829 brette 20 0 19276 1360 960 R 137 0.0 0:00.10 top
5 min after :
Tasks: 184 total, 4 running, 180 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 18.8%us, 17.8%sy, 30.8%ni, 32.1%id, 0.2%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.3%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 4059252k total, 3433248k used, 626004k free, 41120k buffers
Swap: 9767484k total, 26900k used, 9740584k free, 489864k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
30145 root 22 2 1909m 1.8g 3128 R 70 46.9 36:17.76 polkitd
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Here are more detailed results of
"/bin/ps -eo sz,rss,
Date/Time SZ RSS VSZ PID NI PRI %CPU %MEM STAT COMMAND
ps.20101224-1540: 2151 5828 8604 1746 0 19 0.1 0.5 S polkitd
ps.20101225-
(I have a record available if useful taken every hour)
The increase seems unrelated to machine/user load. It continue to grow for ever,
slowing more and more all processes and killing the system in the end...
Changed in policykit-1 (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
Aplying workaround from bug #572813 didn't solve the problem.