Public bug reported: I was playing a game (via wine) while trying to delete my thrash, since my disk space is getting low. Also I used nemo for default file manager but I think It was not the problem. After a couple of hours the ram usage rises near to its capacity. I have 2GBs of ram. After I discovered it, terminating the process became really difficult. The system being unresponsive, and logging in the VT shell was also slower than molasses. Good thing I have a Terminal open and run htop which states the gnome-settings-daemon uses about 29%+ and it continues to increase. I ran "killall gnome-settings-daemon". It did not work for the first time then I tried to enter it a multiple times. After some minutes it was terminated and the process again restarts but with a very low ram usage.
ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10 Package: gnome-settings-daemon 3.8.5-0ubuntu9 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-11.17-generic 3.11.3 Uname: Linux 3.11.0-11-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2 Architecture: amd64 Date: Sat Oct 19 15:44:37 2013 InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-10-07 (11 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Beta amd64 (20131005) MarkForUpload: True SourcePackage: gnome-settings-daemon UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) mtime.conffile..etc.xdg.autostart.gnome.fallback.mount.helper.desktop: 2013-10-07T21:52:58.564096 mtime.conffile..etc.xdg.autostart.gnome.settings.daemon.desktop: 2013-10-07T21:52:58.568096 ** Affects: gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug saucy -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1241964 Title: gnome-settings-daemon uses too much ram To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-settings-daemon/+bug/1241964/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs