Yes, the problem is that pcscd's memory consumption is growing over time. It doesn't matter if I stop my application or not. I made the test again and after a minute, memory consumption increased from 22000kB to 28236kB
$ ps aux | grep pcscd && sleep 60 && ps aux | grep pcscd root 7781 0.3 0.2 171316 22000 pts/1 Sl 16:20 0:00 /usr/sbin/pcscd gden 7892 0.0 0.0 11740 928 pts/1 S+ 16:24 0:00 grep --color=auto pcscd root 7781 0.3 0.3 171316 28236 pts/1 Sl 16:20 0:01 /usr/sbin/pcscd gden 7905 0.0 0.0 11740 928 pts/1 S+ 16:25 0:00 grep --color=auto pcscd -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1511674 Title: Memory leak To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pcsc-lite/+bug/1511674/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs