Re: packagekitd

2015-12-09 Thread Bob Tracy
On Wed, Dec 09, 2015 at 10:19:16PM -0600, Bob Tracy wrote: > The subject program has a rather sizable memory leak on Alpha. Here's a link to a relevant bug report: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=802306 Also, it does no good to stop the packagekit service: it simply restarts au

packagekitd

2015-12-09 Thread Bob Tracy
(Comments below apply to the "unstable/sid" version of Debian.) The subject program has a rather sizable memory leak on Alpha. Stuff starts breaking due to the OOM condition (USB device driver loads fail with paging errors), and "top" confirms "packagekitd" consuming a disproportionate share of s