Further to above, I have killed amarok, and dbus-daemon memory consumption has declined slightly.
What has not yet declined is the number of zombie bash processes being reported by top. These also appear to be related to amarok Are they also connected to this dbus-daemon issue? br...@xenophon:~$ ps aux | grep bash bruce 4617 0.0 0.0 22060 3624 pts/1 Ss Oct11 0:00 /bin/bash bruce 10150 1.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 00:07 0:00 [bash] <defunct> bruce 10156 2.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 00:07 0:00 [bash] <defunct> bruce 10159 3.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 00:07 0:00 [bash] <defunct> bruce 10177 2.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 00:07 0:00 [bash] <defunct> bruce 10188 1.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 00:07 0:00 [bash] <defunct> bruce 10203 2.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 00:07 0:00 [bash] <defunct> bruce 10207 2.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 00:07 0:00 [bash] <defunct> bruce 10211 2.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 00:07 0:00 [bash] <defunct> bruce 10215 1.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 00:07 0:00 [bash] <defunct> bruce 10221 2.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 00:07 0:00 [bash] <defunct> bruce 10224 2.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 00:07 0:00 [bash] <defunct> bruce 10228 1.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 00:07 0:00 [bash] <defunct> bruce 10233 2.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 00:07 0:00 [bash] <defunct> bruce 10238 1.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 00:07 0:00 [bash] <defunct> bruce 10242 1.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 00:07 0:00 [bash] <defunct> bruce 10247 2.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 00:07 0:00 [bash] <defunct> bruce 10253 2.0 0.0 10420 1336 ? S 00:07 0:00 /bin/bash -c qdbus org.kde.amarok /Player GetMetadata | grep 'title:' | sed -e 's/title: //g' bruce 10257 2.0 0.0 10420 1332 ? S 00:07 0:00 /bin/bash -c ps xa | wc | cut -c 4-12 bruce 10259 0.0 0.0 7336 880 pts/3 R+ 00:07 0:00 grep bash bruce 12584 0.0 0.0 10956 1276 pts/1 S+ Oct11 0:00 /bin/bash /home/bruce/bin/speedfox bruce 13368 0.0 0.0 10956 788 pts/1 S+ Oct11 0:00 /bin/bash /home/bruce/bin/speedfox bruce 23166 0.0 0.0 22056 1872 pts/3 Ss Oct11 0:00 /bin/bash br...@xenophon:~$ ps aux | grep bash bruce 4617 0.0 0.0 22060 3624 pts/1 Ss Oct11 0:00 /bin/bash bruce 11703 2.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 00:08 0:00 [bash] <defunct> bruce 11709 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 00:08 0:00 [bash] <defunct> bruce 11714 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 00:08 0:00 [bash] <defunct> bruce 11718 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 00:08 0:00 [bash] <defunct> bruce 11724 0.0 0.0 10424 1368 ? S 00:08 0:00 /bin/bash -c milTime=`qdbus org.kde.amarok /Player PositionGet`;totalTime=`qdbus org.kde.amarok /Player GetMetadata | grep mtime | cut -c 8-`;ttime=$( [ `expr length $((totalTime/1000 % 60))` -lt 2 ] && echo $((totalTime/60000)):0$((totalTime/1000 % 60)) || echo $((totalTime/60000)):$((totalTime/1000 %60)) );ctime=$( [ `expr length $((milTime/1000 % 60))` -lt 2 ] && echo $((milTime/60000)):0$((milTime/1000 % 60)) || echo $((milTime/60000)):$((milTime/1000 %60)) );echo $ctime / $ttime bruce 11726 0.0 0.0 7336 876 pts/3 R+ 00:08 0:00 grep bash bruce 12584 0.0 0.0 10956 1276 pts/1 S+ Oct11 0:00 /bin/bash /home/bruce/bin/speedfox bruce 13368 0.0 0.0 10956 788 pts/1 S+ Oct11 0:00 /bin/bash /home/bruce/bin/speedfox bruce 23166 0.0 0.0 22056 1876 pts/3 Ss Oct11 0:00 /bin/bash -- dbus-daemon memory leak https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/295741 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs