[Bug 1316830] Re: /usr/lib/accountsservice/accounts-daemon :: memory and CPU time leak

2017-07-17 Thread Christian Et
Same here, this time on Debian 3.16.43-2+deb8u1 with kernel 3.16.0-4-amd64. I know this is an Ubuntu forum, but this bug ticket is the closest one for this issue that I could find. Package accountsservice has version 0.6.37-3+b1. This machine is running ProFTPd 1.3.5 with a high number of FTP sess

[Bug 1316830] Re: /usr/lib/accountsservice/accounts-daemon :: memory and CPU time leak

2017-07-18 Thread Christian Et
Apparently, wtmp just keeps a log of _all_ logins. Removing that file disables this logging (I have it in proftpd.log anyways) and solved my problem! rm /var/log/wtmp >From man wtmp: The wtmp file records all logins and logouts. (...) wtmp is maintained by login(1), init(8), and some versions o

[Bug 1316830] Re: /usr/lib/accountsservice/accounts-daemon :: memory and CPU time leak

2017-07-18 Thread Christian Et
Sorry for spamming, but I found that above solution is not 100% perfect: It causes warnings in proftpd.log. Instead of removing /var/log/wtmp better write the following directive in /etc/proftpd/proftpd.conf: WtmpLog off -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bu