I have experienced this as well. though on a non-GUI system, the only symptom was that the log file would grow large. I uninstalled it with no noticeable side effects.
feel free to file a bug; I would guess it would be closed as a duplicate. -wes On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 9:13 PM, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]>wrote: > Suddenly my Mint Xfce desktop was running slow. After a bit of > sleuthing I discovered that console-kit-daemon was taking over a GB of > RAM (the computer has two GB). The GUI task manager refused to kill it, > as did top, but I was finally able to nuke it with sudo kill and the > PID number. I did not reboot and the computer runs normally now without > it. > > According to what Google provides me console-kit-daemon is deprecated > and no longer necessary. So why was it even running? And if it is > needed, why does it need a GB of RAM? Should I be filing a bug report? > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
