Launchpad has imported 15 comments from the remote bug at https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=638784.
If you reply to an imported comment from within Launchpad, your comment will be sent to the remote bug automatically. Read more about Launchpad's inter-bugtracker facilities at https://help.launchpad.net/InterBugTracking. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2010-09-13T04:00:11+00:00 flan_suse wrote: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.3 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/6.0.472.55 Safari/534.3 The polkitd process, which runs as root, starts at 4 MB of reserved memory, but will gradually balloon to giant levels, such as 250 MB and beyond. If I kill the process (kill -9) in runlevel 3, then return to runlevel 5, it once again starts at 4 MB, but it will grow to the same levels if left unchecked. I have deleted my ~/.pulse and ~/.dbus directories, but it made no difference. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Use the system normally. Actual Results: The polkitd process will consume more memory than it should. Eventually, if left alone long enough, the system will be forced to use swap, and if still left alone, the system will begin to crawl. Expected Results: The polkitd process should not consume enourmous amounts of RAM. openSUSE 11.3 x86_64 2.6.34.4-0.1-desktop Latest updated packages. Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/policykit-1/+bug/572813/comments/13 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2010-09-20T16:07:07+00:00 Kasievers wrote: Seems like this issue: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29069 Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/policykit-1/+bug/572813/comments/14 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2010-09-21T03:37:27+00:00 flan_suse wrote: (In reply to comment #1) > Seems like this issue: > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29069 I hope this is the same problem, because if it is, that means the bug was fixed in version 0.98 of polkit. Will it hit the repo for opensuse 11.3? Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/policykit-1/+bug/572813/comments/15 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2010-09-21T08:02:00+00:00 Kasievers wrote: (In reply to comment #2) Will it hit the repo for opensuse 11.3? No, I don't think we can do that, it has too many dependencies. Dependencies which are not even fixed in Factory at the moment. The only option for now is to find the leak in the 11.3 version, which is pretty different code from the current one. Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/policykit-1/+bug/572813/comments/16 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2010-09-22T11:37:38+00:00 Kasievers wrote: The current Factory version seems to leak here: malloc (in /usr/lib64/valgrind/vgpreload_memcheck-amd64-linux.so) g_malloc (in /usr/lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0.2515.0) g_slice_alloc (in /usr/lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0.2515.0) g_hash_table_new_full (in /usr/lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0.2515.0) ??? (in /usr/lib64/libpolkit-gobject-1.so.0.0.0) g_type_create_instance (in /usr/lib64/libgobject-2.0.so.0.2515.0) ??? (in /usr/lib64/libgobject-2.0.so.0.2515.0) g_object_newv (in /usr/lib64/libgobject-2.0.so.0.2515.0) g_object_new (in /usr/lib64/libgobject-2.0.so.0.2515.0) polkit_action_description_new (in /usr/lib64/libpolkit-gobject-1.so.0.0.0) polkit_backend_action_pool_get_action (in /usr/lib64/libpolkit-backend-1.so.0.0.0) polkit_backend_action_pool_get_all_actions (in /usr/lib64/libpolkit-backend-1.so.0.0.0) Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/policykit-1/+bug/572813/comments/17 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2010-10-01T01:56:33+00:00 flan_suse wrote: I can confirm that the same thing occurs on a fresh new installation of openSUSE 11.3 i586 on a different machine. I hope this can be fixed relatively soon. It's a serious leak and "don't use the computer for too long before rebooting" isn't an appealing option. This can be a detour for users from Windows or other distros. Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/policykit-1/+bug/572813/comments/18 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2010-10-03T03:14:53+00:00 flan_suse wrote: Could this be somehow GNOME-related? I also noticed that on two other computers this problem does not exist. They are using KDE. The computers that suffer from this issue are using GNOME and Xfce. (The Xfce system formerly was GNOME in the beginning, and some GNOME packages and libraries are still installed.) Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/policykit-1/+bug/572813/comments/19 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2010-10-14T12:09:22+00:00 Hvermeulen wrote: Same issue here. OpenSUSE 11.3 x86_64 fully patched. Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/policykit-1/+bug/572813/comments/22 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2010-10-15T00:35:07+00:00 flan_suse wrote: (In reply to comment #7) > Same issue here. > OpenSUSE 11.3 x86_64 fully patched. Just curious. Are you using KDE or GNOME? Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/policykit-1/+bug/572813/comments/23 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2010-10-15T05:25:43+00:00 Hvermeulen wrote: I am on Gnome. Disabling Pulseaudio immediately solved the issue. But then I have issues with multimedia :-) lovely... Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/policykit-1/+bug/572813/comments/24 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2010-10-15T15:50:33+00:00 flan_suse wrote: For the KDE systems, none of them have pulseaudio enabled, and none of them have the polkitd memory leak problem. The GNOME system has pulseaudio enabled and installed, and it suffers from this memory leak. Looks like pulseaudio may be the culprit (again...) for this issue. But then here's what is odd. On my Xfce system, pulseaudio is disabled, and it's not even installed. The only pulse packages I have are: libpulse0-32bit-0.9.21-10.1.1.x86_64 libpulse-mainloop-glib0-0.9.21-10.1.1.x86_64 libpulse0-0.9.21-10.1.1.x86_64 I just have to say it. I, and people I've installed Linux for, have had way too many problems with pulseaudio. This is why I'm starting to ditch GNOME in favor of KDE. At least with KDE, you can have pulseaudio completely disabled, but not lose your shortcut keys, your volume controls, or your audio settings. Sorry to hear about your issue, Hans- Robert. But back to the bug. Hope there's a way to plug the memory leak without resorting to disabling pulseaudio or removing it from a GNOME setup. Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/policykit-1/+bug/572813/comments/25 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2010-10-16T03:38:26+00:00 flan_suse wrote: I re-installed the pulseaudio package, then disabled PulseAudio with YaST. But polkitd still has a memory leak. Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/policykit-1/+bug/572813/comments/26 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2011-03-14T16:12:02+00:00 Kasievers wrote: I was never really able to reproduce the issue. And only a very few boxes seem to have this issue. I really have no idea what's going on here. Somebody who can trigger this, any chance to try the version from Base:System, which has a bunch of fixes? Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/policykit-1/+bug/572813/comments/33 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2011-04-29T08:24:35+00:00 Swamp-a wrote: Update released for: libpolkit0, libpolkit0-debuginfo, polkit, polkit-debuginfo, polkit-debugsource, polkit-devel, polkit-devel-debuginfo, polkit-doc Products: openSUSE 11.4 (debug, i586, x86_64) Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/policykit-1/+bug/572813/comments/36 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2011-05-02T17:19:26+00:00 Kasievers wrote: Closing. Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/policykit-1/+bug/572813/comments/37 ** Changed in: policykit-1 (openSUSE) Status: Unknown => Fix Released ** Changed in: policykit-1 (openSUSE) Importance: Unknown => Medium ** Bug watch added: freedesktop.org Bugzilla #29069 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29069 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/572813 Title: polkitd service is using all my RAM To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/policykit-1/+bug/572813/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
