I had polkitd eat through all RAM and swap (approx 6G total) and trigger oom-killer on firefox overnight.
Seeing the above, and being long overdue for a housecleaning of dot files/directories, I started with a clean dir and only migrated key stuff I use daily directly (i.e. .gitconfig, .thunderbird .mozilla etc) --- all system stuff like gconf etc was left behind and started with a new dir given by adduser (and chown'd appropriately). That didn't help -- as polkitd has already gone back to 3GB and counting. So the "make a new user" thing did nothing here. Also audio doesn't work (not sure if that is related) on this generic dell optiplex 760. PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 13077 root 20 0 3307m 3.2g 3084 S 16 55.6 74:50.09 polkitd I attached strace to it and it generated about 4MB of output in just a few seconds; looks like it is repeating the same thing over and over. A snippet of the 4MB log is attached. ** Attachment added: "strace output from memory eating polkitd" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/46042013/linux.xml ** Attachment removed: "strace output from memory eating polkitd" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/46042013/linux.xml -- High CPU usage in policykit-1 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/570015 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
