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-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to deja-dup in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1571320 Title: deja-dup-monitor eats RAM/CPU while trying to modify dconf user file Status in dconf package in Ubuntu: New Status in deja-dup package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: As far as I know, I don't have deja-dup set up to do anything. Behavior: While using other applications, the system became nearly unusable, with inputs ignored or heavily lagging. The CPU fan was periodically cycling into high RPM. I could not even open another TTY. Eventually, GUI authentication messages started showing up asking for authorization to modify my user data. After much patience, I was able to open a System Monitor GUI and see that deja-dup-monitor was using over 10GB of RAM (out of 12GB on the machine). Killing this task ended the issue. Syslog shows a number of dconf-related messages about permissions denied while trying to create file /run/user/1000/dconf/user . This affected many applications, and some of them were condensed into "message repeats X times". In the case of deja-dup-monitor, however, the message repeated thousands of times. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04 Package: deja-dup 34.2-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-18.34-generic 4.4.6 Uname: Linux 4.4.0-18-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: Unity Date: Sun Apr 17 08:04:09 2016 InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-08-10 (616 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140722.2) SourcePackage: deja-dup UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2016-03-26 (21 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dconf/+bug/1571320/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
