It's a leak in polkit, it appears to register of the policyagent changed signal (or * signals) and then leaves the message pass by without freeing the allocated memory it appears.
** Changed in: kde4libs (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Medium ** Package changed: kde4libs (Ubuntu) => policykit-1 (Ubuntu) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to policykit-1 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1092390 Title: kded4 memory use grows with every accepted ssh connection. Memory leak? Status in “policykit-1” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: The kded4 RSS grows seemingly without bound with every ssh login. djh900@dh:~$ pkill kded4 djh900@dh:~$ nohup kded4 nohup: ignoring input and appending output to `nohup.out' djh900@dh:~$ pgrep kded4 11430 djh900@dh:~$ ps vp 11430 PID TTY STAT TIME MAJFL TRS DRS RSS %MEM COMMAND 11430 pts/0 Sl 0:00 0 2 857053 64476 1.6 kded4 djh900@dh:~$ for i in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9; do ssh localhost true; done djh900@dh:~$ ps vp 11430 PID TTY STAT TIME MAJFL TRS DRS RSS %MEM COMMAND 11430 pts/0 Sl 0:01 0 2 857213 87108 2.2 kded4 djh900@dh:~$ for i in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9; do ssh localhost true; done djh900@dh:~$ ps vp 11430 PID TTY STAT TIME MAJFL TRS DRS RSS %MEM COMMAND 11430 pts/0 Sl 0:01 0 2 857373 109656 2.7 kded4 djh900@dh:~$ for i in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9; do ssh localhost true; done djh900@dh:~$ ps vp 11430 PID TTY STAT TIME MAJFL TRS DRS RSS %MEM COMMAND 11430 pts/0 Sl 0:02 0 2 923101 131948 3.3 kded4 djh900@dh:~$ for i in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9; do ssh localhost true; done djh900@dh:~$ ps vp 11430 PID TTY STAT TIME MAJFL TRS DRS RSS %MEM COMMAND 11430 pts/0 Sl 0:03 0 2 923261 154500 3.9 kded4 djh900@dh:~$ for i in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9; do ssh localhost true; done djh900@dh:~$ ps vp 11430 PID TTY STAT TIME MAJFL TRS DRS RSS %MEM COMMAND 11430 pts/0 Sl 0:03 0 2 923453 176792 4.5 kded4 djh900@dh:~$ for i in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9; do ssh localhost true; done djh900@dh:~$ ps vp 11430 PID TTY STAT TIME MAJFL TRS DRS RSS %MEM COMMAND 11430 pts/0 Sl 0:04 0 2 989149 199084 5.0 kded4 djh900@dh:~$ ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: kdelibs-bin 4:4.8.5-0ubuntu0.1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-32.51-generic 3.2.30 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-32-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu15.1 Architecture: amd64 Date: Thu Dec 20 13:38:30 2012 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/kded4 InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120423) MarkForUpload: True ProcEnviron: SHELL=/bin/bash TERM=xterm PATH=(custom, user) LANG=en_AU.UTF-8 LANGUAGE=en_AU:en SourcePackage: kde4libs UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/policykit-1/+bug/1092390/+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
