** Changed in: gnome-keyring (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => High
** Changed in: gnome-keyring (Ubuntu Precise)
Importance: Undecided => High
** Changed in: gnome-keyring (Ubuntu Precise)
Status: New => In Progress
** Description changed:
- gnome-keyring-daemon gets killed here every few days due to it's memory
- size exceeding the site imposed limit of 2GB per process. The ulimit of
- course is not the problem as even with an unlimited setting, it would
- just grow until it was killed by the OOM killer.
+ * Impact:
+ gnome-keyring leaks memory which is not nice
+
+ * Test Case:
+ run a GNOME or Unity session for some time, watch the gnome-keyring-daemon
memory usage
+
+ * Regression Potential:
+ check that keyring keeps working fine (ssh/ggp agents, network-manager
passwords, etc)
+
+ -----------
+
+
+ gnome-keyring-daemon gets killed here every few days due to it's memory size
exceeding the site imposed limit of 2GB per process. The ulimit of course is
not the problem as even with an unlimited setting, it would just grow until it
was killed by the OOM killer.
The real problem here is that gnome-keyring-daemon has no business
growing to even a fraction of the 2GB limit imposed here. 2G for a
simple keyring daemon is absurd.
Looking at the upstream changelog for versions beyond the 3.2.2 on which
the Ubuntu version is based appear to have fixed memory leaks. Given
that this leaking 3.2.2-2ubuntu4 version is in the Precise LTS release,
upgrading to a newer Ubuntu release is not a solution nor an option --
this LTS release is supposed to be supported beyond 2017. A fix needs
to be backported. Having gnome-keyring-daemon leaking for 5 more years
is simply unacceptable.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: LinuxMint 12
Package: gnome-keyring 3.2.2-2ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-29.46-generic-pae 3.2.24
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-29-generic-pae i686
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu15
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Dec 29 11:38:45 2012
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
- TERM=xterm
- PATH=(custom, user)
- LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
- SHELL=/bin/bash
+ TERM=xterm
+ PATH=(custom, user)
+ LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
+ SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-keyring
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
modified.conffile..etc.xdg.autostart.gnome.keyring.gpg.desktop: [modified]
modified.conffile..etc.xdg.autostart.gnome.keyring.pkcs11.desktop: [modified]
modified.conffile..etc.xdg.autostart.gnome.keyring.secrets.desktop: [modified]
modified.conffile..etc.xdg.autostart.gnome.keyring.ssh.desktop: [modified]
mtime.conffile..etc.xdg.autostart.gnome.keyring.gpg.desktop:
2012-03-21T15:31:45
mtime.conffile..etc.xdg.autostart.gnome.keyring.pkcs11.desktop:
2012-02-23T18:28:50
mtime.conffile..etc.xdg.autostart.gnome.keyring.secrets.desktop:
2012-02-23T18:26:38
mtime.conffile..etc.xdg.autostart.gnome.keyring.ssh.desktop:
2012-03-21T15:32:22
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gnome-keyring-daemon leaks memory
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