Public bug reported:
Periodically I install updates on my computer and reboot without logging
in. When I come back to my computer and log in, polkitd is using a large
chunk of memory. At the moment it's using > 2.3 GiB of memory on a
machine with 8 GB RAM:
$ ps aux | grep polkit
root 1229 0.4 29.8 2652532 2420916 ? Sl Jun19 67:38
/usr/lib/policykit-1/polkitd --no-debug
Killing the process frees the memory until I reboot again.
I'm currently using the latest version of policykit-1:
$ apt-file search /usr/lib/policykit-1/polkitd
policykit-1: /usr/lib/policykit-1/polkitd
$ apt-cache policy policykit-1
policykit-1:
Installed: 0.105-4ubuntu2.14.04.1
Candidate: 0.105-4ubuntu2.14.04.1
Version table:
*** 0.105-4ubuntu2.14.04.1 0
500 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main amd64
Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
0.105-4ubuntu2 0
500 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages
$ sudo apt-get upgrade policykit-1
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
policykit-1 is already the newest version.
Other information:
$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS
Release: 14.04
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: policykit-1 0.105-4ubuntu2.14.04.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-41.55~14.04.1-generic 3.16.7-ckt11
Uname: Linux 3.16.0-41-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.11
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Jun 30 16:14:51 2015
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-08-25 (309 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 14.04.1 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140723)
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_CA:en
TERM=xterm
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: policykit-1
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
** Affects: policykit-1 (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug trusty
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1470235
Title:
PolicyKit high memory usage
Status in policykit-1 package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
Periodically I install updates on my computer and reboot without
logging in. When I come back to my computer and log in, polkitd is
using a large chunk of memory. At the moment it's using > 2.3 GiB of
memory on a machine with 8 GB RAM:
$ ps aux | grep polkit
root 1229 0.4 29.8 2652532 2420916 ? Sl Jun19 67:38
/usr/lib/policykit-1/polkitd --no-debug
Killing the process frees the memory until I reboot again.
I'm currently using the latest version of policykit-1:
$ apt-file search /usr/lib/policykit-1/polkitd
policykit-1: /usr/lib/policykit-1/polkitd
$ apt-cache policy policykit-1
policykit-1:
Installed: 0.105-4ubuntu2.14.04.1
Candidate: 0.105-4ubuntu2.14.04.1
Version table:
*** 0.105-4ubuntu2.14.04.1 0
500 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main amd64
Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
0.105-4ubuntu2 0
500 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages
$ sudo apt-get upgrade policykit-1
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
policykit-1 is already the newest version.
Other information:
$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS
Release: 14.04
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: policykit-1 0.105-4ubuntu2.14.04.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-41.55~14.04.1-generic 3.16.7-ckt11
Uname: Linux 3.16.0-41-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.11
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Jun 30 16:14:51 2015
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-08-25 (309 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 14.04.1 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64
(20140723)
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_CA:en
TERM=xterm
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: policykit-1
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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