On Sat, Dec 19, 2015, Stephen Kitt wrote: > Dear Maintainer, > > I'm also seeing excessive RAM use; packagekitd is currently using > 4.8GB of RAM (on my 32GB system).
I’m tempted to suggest raising the severity of this bug. It has become unbearable, the insane memory usage of packagekitd causes processes to be randomly killed, compilations to fail, X to hang in inconsistent states (the mouse loses its ability to focus windows), several of our machines regularly become unusable for several minutes due to this apparent leak. Sometimes it’s faster to reboot the machine than to wait for it to become responsible again. Just as I am writing this, packagekitd is using 1.8 GiB (RSS). /proc indicates that most of it is heap memory. This really feels like a serious bug to me. Regards, -- Sam.
