Sorry to be swamping this thread with messages. In an effort to isolate problems on my system, I have: (1) temporarily removed amarok and its two helper packages (2) restarted the system
top continues to report dozens of zombie bash instances. They are spawned fast and many (?) appear to be cleaned up fast. (I thought the whole point of a zombie process was that it couldn't be cleaned up, but that shows how little I know :-( ) These zombie processes appear to be linked to amarok, but amarok is not running on this system. It is uninstalled. r...@xenophon:~# ps aux | grep bash bruce 1780 0.0 0.0 10956 1712 pts/2 S+ 00:42 0:00 /bin/bash /home/bruce/bin/speedfox bruce 2778 0.0 0.0 10956 896 pts/2 S+ 00:42 0:00 /bin/bash /home/bruce/bin/speedfox bruce 5015 0.0 0.0 10428 1392 ? R 00:46 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 / $ttime bruce 5018 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 00:46 0:00 [bash] <defunct> bruce 5025 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 00:46 0:00 [bash] <defunct> bruce 5031 0.0 0.0 10420 1340 ? S 00:46 0:00 /bin/bash -c qdbus org.kde.amarok /Player GetMetadata | grep 'artist:' | sed -e 's/artist: //g' root 5036 0.0 0.0 7336 868 pts/1 R+ 00:46 0:00 grep bash bruce 6891 0.0 0.1 22060 4832 pts/1 Ss 00:34 0:00 /bin/bash bruce 6892 0.0 0.1 22060 4828 pts/2 Ss 00:34 0:00 /bin/bash root 23388 0.0 0.1 21540 4552 pts/1 S 00:38 0:00 /bin/bash r...@xenophon:~# exit exit br...@xenophon:~$ pa | grep dbus-daemon 102 1235 0.1 0.0 23804 1444 ? Ss 00:33 0:01 dbus-daemon --system --fork root 1894 0.0 0.0 23328 812 ? Ss 00:33 0:00 /bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 5 --print-address 7 --session bruce 3205 4.2 0.2 33176 10816 ? Rs 00:33 0:36 /bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 5 --print-address 7 --session bruce 19506 0.0 0.0 7336 872 pts/1 R+ 00:48 0:00 grep dbus-daemon br...@xenophon:~$ dpkg -l | grep amarok rc amarok 2:2.2.0-0ubuntu2 easy to use media player based on the KDE 4 technology platform br...@xenophon:~$ ps aux | grep amarok bruce 17117 0.0 0.0 10428 1388 ? S 00:54 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 / $ttime bruce 17126 0.0 0.0 7336 880 pts/1 R+ 00:54 0:00 grep amarok bruce 17133 0.0 0.0 10428 624 ? R 00:54 0:00 /bin/bash -c milTime=`qdbus org.kde.amarok /Player PositionGet`;totalTime=`qdbus org.kde.amarok /Player GetMetadata | grep mtime | cut -c 8-`;ttime=$( [ `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 / $ttime br...@xenophon:~$ What the !...@#$ ? -- 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