Using Fedora 31 with geoclue2-2.5.5-1.fc31 I also see an RSS of over 3 GB. gnome-shell is using almost as much; perhaps these are related?
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND geoclue 1520 0.3 19.3 7513496 3139312 ? Ssl Oct03 129:56 /usr/libexec/geoclue gaul 1850 1.8 15.5 5809552 2533988 ? Ssl Oct03 766:09 /usr/bin/gnome-shell -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to geoclue in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1827498 Title: Geoclue 2 very high memory usage Status in geoclue package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: After geoclue 2 running at high CPU for some minutes I found CPU usage had dropped to zero but geoclue was still hogging a whopping 11GB of memory (the PC has 16GB). I stopped the geoclue service to recover the memory. Kubuntu 18.04 $ apt-cache policy geoclue-2.0 geoclue-2.0: Installed: 2.4.7-1ubuntu1 Candidate: 2.4.7-1ubuntu1 Version table: *** 2.4.7-1ubuntu1 500 500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status Happy to provide other info on request. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/geoclue/+bug/1827498/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
