Package: mate-settings-daemon Version: 1.14.1-1 Severity: normal My system has been engaging the OOM killer sporadically the last couepl of weeks. It started dragging this morning and I captured this line from top:
2387 cchiappa 20 0 9128408 6.512g 2220 R 93.8 83.9 5:07.88 mate-settings-d Killing mate-settings-daemon restored its memory to something that looks reasonable: cchiappa 14757 0.0 0.4 1228008 33248 ? Sl 09:04 0:00 /usr/bin/mate-settings-daemon It seem to be coincident with having about 3.2 million of these lines in my .xsession-errors: (mate-settings-daemon:2387): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_closure_ref: assertion 'closure->ref_count < CLOSURE_MAX_REF_COUNT' failed Given that Bug#824950 also mentions a memory leak, perhaps there is a general problem with errors leaking? -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.7.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages mate-settings-daemon depends on: ii libatk1.0-0 2.21.90-2 ii libc6 2.24-2 ii libcairo-gobject2 1.14.6-1+b1 ii libcairo2 1.14.6-1+b1 ii libcanberra-gtk3-0 0.30-3 ii libcanberra0 0.30-3 ii libdbus-1-3 1.10.10-1 ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.108-1 ii libdconf1 0.26.0-1 ii libfontconfig1 2.11.0-6.7 ii libfreetype6 2.6.3-3+b1 ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.35.4-4 ii libglib2.0-0 2.49.6-1 ii libgtk-3-0 3.21.5-3 ii libice6 2:1.0.9-1+b1 ii libmate-desktop-2-17 1.14.1-1 ii libmatekbd4 1.14.1-1 ii libmatemixer0 1.14.0-1 ii libnotify4 0.7.6-2 ii libnspr4 2:4.12-6 ii libnss3 2:3.26-1 ii libpango-1.0-0 1.40.2-1 ii libpangocairo-1.0-0 1.40.2-1 ii libpolkit-gobject-1-0 0.105-16 ii libpulse0 9.0-3 ii libsm6 2:1.2.2-1+b1 ii libstartup-notification0 0.12-4 ii libx11-6 2:1.6.3-1 ii libxext6 2:1.3.3-1 ii libxi6 2:1.7.6-1 ii libxklavier16 5.4-1 ii mate-desktop-common 1.14.1-1 ii mate-polkit [policykit-1-gnome] 1.14.0-1 ii mate-settings-daemon-common 1.14.1-1 ii policykit-1-gnome 0.105-3 ii x11-xserver-utils 7.7+7 mate-settings-daemon recommends no packages. mate-settings-daemon suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
