[Bug 295741] Re: dbus-daemon memory leak

2014-11-21 Thread Rolf Leggewie
Hardy has seen the end of its life and is no longer receiving any updates. Marking the Hardy task for this ticket as Won't Fix. ** Changed in: dbus (Ubuntu Hardy) Status: Incomplete = Won't Fix -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 295741] Re: dbus-daemon memory leak

2011-04-07 Thread Kakapapa
When I executed dbus-daemon with verbose mode(described in man page), I could see strange thing after few minutes(output is grepped). - 6315: Message 0xb7ff7fe8 (4 /org/freedesktop/DBus org.freedesktop.DBus NameOwnerChanged 'sss') for null added to outgoing queue 0xb7fe7a78, 1 pending to

[Bug 295741] Re: dbus-daemon memory leak

2011-03-12 Thread Haikal Pribadi
yes it definitely still exists, i'm on maverick, and it has been occuring for the last 2 months. and really hard to produce.. could anybody help us here? feel free to ask me anything that i should provide, i would love to, i just don't know what to provide right now. and it's really hard to

[Bug 295741] Re: dbus-daemon memory leak

2010-12-08 Thread Florian Rathgeber
Sorry for bringing this up again, but I see quite similar symptoms on a current natty install with kernel 2.6.37-5 and dbus 1.4.0-0ubuntu1 on a DELL E6510 laptop (NVIDIA NVS 3100M). When I try to suspend on battery (which fails because 2 tasks fail to freeze), dbus starts acting mad and currently

[Bug 295741] Re: dbus-daemon memory leak

2009-10-23 Thread Bruce Miller
Your most recent post was discouraging: if the brightest minds of Canonical aren't immediately clear how to trace the single largest problem undermining my productive use of Kubuntu, how do I stand a chance? :-( But I now have a couple of hunches to offer. So far, these are only hunches, which

[Bug 295741] Re: dbus-daemon memory leak

2009-10-19 Thread Scott James Remnant
Interesting, it's your *session* bus that has the high memory consumption. That's a bit more tricky to debug, since it's started from within X. In fact, I don't have any idea how to do that at the moment :-/ -- dbus-daemon memory leak https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/295741 You received this

[Bug 295741] Re: dbus-daemon memory leak

2009-10-16 Thread Bruce Miller
Thank you for the layman's summary. It was a *_very helpful_* summary. This KDE session loaded 28 hours ago. These are my current stats: br...@xenophon:~$ ps aux | grep dbus-daemon 102 1201 0.0 0.0 27196 3620 ?Rs Oct14 2:13 dbus-daemon --system --fork bruce 8802 2.9

[Bug 295741] Re: dbus-daemon memory leak

2009-10-16 Thread Bruce Miller
By the time that I went to generate a massif.out report, the KDE session was up to its neck in swap page quicksand and I forgot the instruction about killing dbus-daemon first. I eventually did look up the instructions, and the report is attached. But along the way, valgrind reported that it had

[Bug 295741] Re: dbus-daemon memory leak

2009-10-12 Thread Bruce Miller
It is 8.5 hours since I restarted the system and logged back into KDE. Here is the output of ps -avx: br...@xenophon:~$ ps avx | grep dbus-daemon 1235 ?Ss 0:20 3 311 23596 1364 0.0 dbus-daemon --system --fork 1894 ?Ss 0:00 0 311 23016 812 0.0

Re: [Bug 295741] Re: dbus-daemon memory leak

2009-10-12 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 04:13 +, Bruce Miller wrote: What has not yet declined is the number of zombie bash processes being reported by top. These also appear to be related to amarok Are they also connected to this dbus-daemon issue? Not sure, but they're definitely amarok's fault. For

[Bug 295741] Re: dbus-daemon memory leak

2009-10-12 Thread Bruce Miller
br...@xenophon:~$ valgrind --tool=massif /bin/dbus-daemon --system ==1225== Massif, a heap profiler ==1225== Copyright (C) 2003-2009, and GNU GPL'd, by Nicholas Nethercote ==1225== Using Valgrind-3.5.0-Debian and LibVEX; rerun with -h for copyright info ==1225== Command: /bin/dbus-daemon --system

Re: [Bug 295741] Re: dbus-daemon memory leak

2009-10-12 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 13:18 +, Bruce Miller wrote: br...@xenophon:~$ valgrind --tool=massif /bin/dbus-daemon --system ==1225== Massif, a heap profiler ==1225== Copyright (C) 2003-2009, and GNU GPL'd, by Nicholas Nethercote ==1225== Using Valgrind-3.5.0-Debian and LibVEX; rerun with -h for

[Bug 295741] Re: dbus-daemon memory leak

2009-10-12 Thread Bruce Miller
Here's the new massif.out ** Attachment added: massif.out.14298 http://launchpadlibrarian.net/33495789/massif.out.14298 -- dbus-daemon memory leak https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/295741 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

Re: [Bug 295741] Re: dbus-daemon memory leak

2009-10-12 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 14:22 +, Bruce Miller wrote: Here's the new massif.out ** Attachment added: massif.out.14298 http://launchpadlibrarian.net/33495789/massif.out.14298 OOI how long did you leave this running for? You might need to let it accumulate more data so that the leak is

Re: [Bug 295741] Re: dbus-daemon memory leak

2009-10-12 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 14:22 +, Bruce Miller wrote: Here's the new massif.out ** Attachment added: massif.out.14298 http://launchpadlibrarian.net/33495789/massif.out.14298 I do not believe that this shows a memory leak, merely a usual increase of heap size due to excessive repeated

[Bug 295741] Re: dbus-daemon memory leak

2009-10-11 Thread Bruce Miller
dbus-daemon appears to be the main cause of the unusable system performance I am experiencing on my Kubuntu Karmic setup: br...@xenophon:~$ uname -a Linux Xenophon 2.6.31-13-generic #44-Ubuntu SMP Sat Oct 10 15:27:14 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux br...@xenophon:~$ lsb_release -a No LSB modules are

[Bug 295741] Re: dbus-daemon memory leak

2009-10-11 Thread Bruce Miller
Further to above, I updated the kernel last night. The system has been up less than 24 hours. To the best of my recall, I have not logged out of and back into the current KDE session during that time. br...@xenophon:~$ free total used free sharedbuffers cached

[Bug 295741] Re: dbus-daemon memory leak

2009-10-11 Thread Bruce Miller
Further to above, I have killed amarok, and dbus-daemon memory consumption has declined slightly. What has not yet declined is the number of zombie bash processes being reported by top. These also appear to be related to amarok Are they also connected to this dbus-daemon issue? br...@xenophon:~$

[Bug 295741] Re: dbus-daemon memory leak

2009-10-11 Thread Bruce Miller
Sorry to be swamping this thread with messages. In an effort to isolate problems on my system, I have: (1) temporarily removed amarok and its two helper packages (2) restarted the system top continues to report dozens of zombie bash instances. They are spawned fast and many (?) appear to be

[Bug 295741] Re: dbus-daemon memory leak

2009-10-11 Thread Angus
Hi Bruce, I'm the original filer of this bug report and also the writer of that little bit of code that bash is running (perhaps not coincidentally). It's part of a superkaramba theme I made a while back, so you might check to see if that's running. Also, if the bash processes aren't being

[Bug 295741] Re: dbus-daemon memory leak

2009-08-27 Thread Martin Pitt
Indeed; sorry, should have checked more thoroughly when sponsoring, it looked like this was actually tested. Thanks for catching! I rejected the upload. -- dbus-daemon memory leak https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/295741 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs,

Re: [Bug 295741] Re: dbus-daemon memory leak

2009-08-25 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Mon, 2009-08-17 at 18:00 +, Steve Langasek wrote: As far as I'm able to tell, setting --disable-userdb-cache has *no* effect on the code in the hardy version of dbus; it sets a define in config.h which is then never used. Martin, can you confirm this, or else let me know what I've

[Bug 295741] Re: dbus-daemon memory leak

2009-08-17 Thread Steve Langasek
I've reviewed the package in hardy-proposed and, since the effects of a configure flag are non-local and non-obvious, took a closer look at what this option changed. As far as I'm able to tell, setting --disable-userdb-cache has *no* effect on the code in the hardy version of dbus; it sets a

Re: [Bug 295741] Re: dbus-daemon memory leak

2009-08-13 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 22:45 +, near wrote: As i run an archlinux, it's only a comment to help you find out. i'll post this to the dbus bugtracker Again, please run massif over this to track where the memory is going. It may simply be unreturned heap memory. Scott -- Scott James Remnant

[Bug 295741] Re: dbus-daemon memory leak

2009-08-13 Thread dark_construct
Greetings again friends, I also still have this memory issue happening. However, I have been able to prevent it by avoiding certain programs. I have found that if I just run KDE (Kubuntu) and use Kate and Dolphin, then the memory increase does not happen. But if I use nautilus from KDE, it

[Bug 295741] Re: dbus-daemon memory leak

2009-08-06 Thread near
There's definitively something, but it appears only after a few weeks of using gnome. My main use is pidgin (always running) and several instances of epiphany (opened and closed several instances in a day). I think the issue is with epiphany (or something close to it) : * Here is a ps aux | grep

[Bug 295741] Re: dbus-daemon memory leak

2009-07-29 Thread Martin Pitt
The patch makes sense (I subscribed main sponsors), but it worries me that it is still perceived in Karmic (which doesn't disable the userdb cache). Is it confirmed that it is the very same problem? -- dbus-daemon memory leak https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/295741 You received this bug

Re: [Bug 295741] Re: dbus-daemon memory leak

2009-07-29 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Wed, 2009-07-29 at 09:13 +, Martin Pitt wrote: The patch makes sense (I subscribed main sponsors), but it worries me that it is still perceived in Karmic (which doesn't disable the userdb cache). Is it confirmed that it is the very same problem? I've not seen any evidence of a true

[Bug 295741] Re: dbus-daemon memory leak

2009-07-29 Thread Martin Pitt
Sponsored. Colin, Steve, can you please process? ** Changed in: dbus (Ubuntu Hardy) Status: Confirmed = In Progress -- dbus-daemon memory leak https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/295741 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 295741] Re: dbus-daemon memory leak

2009-07-29 Thread Martin Pitt
This is a pretty intrusive change, though, and I wouldn't accept it for intrepid or jaunty. However, with hardy being LTS it will stay around for a while, so with thorough testing the risk is manageable with proper testing IMHO. I'd like this to stay in -proposed for at least two weeks, and get

[Bug 295741] Re: dbus-daemon memory leak

2009-07-29 Thread Martin Pitt
Thanks Scott for the clarification. So I close the Karmic task, and any memory leak still visible in Karmic should get a new bug report. ** Also affects: dbus (Ubuntu Hardy) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Changed in: dbus (Ubuntu) Status: New = Fix Released --

[Bug 295741] Re: dbus-daemon memory leak

2009-07-29 Thread Khashayar Naderehvandi
About the leak I saw in Karmic, I couldn't reproduce it with valgrind, so no evidence from my side. For what it's worth, dbus' ~800MB memory usage was during Nepomuk's initial index of my ~53000 files. Subsequent indexes and crawls didn't cause dbus to fill up my RAM. So maybe it was just

[Bug 295741] Re: dbus-daemon memory leak

2009-07-28 Thread Khashayar Naderehvandi
I know this bug is supposed to be fixed, but I'm sure I'm seeing it on Karmic. dbus-daemon is using ~800MB here. Everything matches what is described in this thread, so I've decided not to open a new bug. How can I provide additional useful information about this leak? -- dbus-daemon memory

[Bug 295741] Re: dbus-daemon memory leak

2009-07-28 Thread James Andrewartha
Khashayar: Run /etc/init.d/dbus stop, then valgrind --tool=massif /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --system like I did, it'll create a massif.out file, which you'll need to chown to messagebus, then kill dbus-daemon and add it as an attachment. Since killing dbus takes out any application on a bus, you'll

[Bug 295741] Re: dbus-daemon memory leak

2009-07-23 Thread James Andrewartha
A statement explaining the impact of the bug on users and justification for backporting the fix to the stable release: Fixes memory leak An explanation of how the bug has been addressed in the development branch, including the relevant version numbers of packages modified in order to implement

[Bug 295741] Re: dbus-daemon memory leak

2009-07-23 Thread James Andrewartha
Let's try this again - use this patch. ** Attachment added: re-enable userdb cache to fix memory leak http://launchpadlibrarian.net/29412863/dbus-disable-disable-userdb-cache.patch ** Changed in: dbus (Ubuntu) Status: Invalid = New -- dbus-daemon memory leak

Re: [Bug 295741] Re: dbus-daemon memory leak

2009-07-22 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Wed, 2009-07-22 at 05:46 +, James Andrewartha wrote: So are you going to fix the memory leak in hardy, or should I open a new bug asking for an SRU? If you'd like an SRU, the procedure for doing so is here: http://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates (note it doesn't require that you

[Bug 295741] Re: dbus-daemon memory leak

2009-07-21 Thread James Andrewartha
So are you going to fix the memory leak in hardy, or should I open a new bug asking for an SRU? -- dbus-daemon memory leak https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/295741 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing

Re: [Bug 295741] Re: dbus-daemon memory leak

2009-07-17 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Fri, 2009-07-17 at 02:54 +, Hei Ku wrote: I tried to kill dbus-daemon, but KWin died on me and it killed my whole session. How can I do it gracefully? You can't, I'm afraid. Scott -- Scott James Remnant sc...@canonical.com -- dbus-daemon memory leak

[Bug 295741] Re: dbus-daemon memory leak

2009-07-16 Thread James Andrewartha
r...@quoll:~ # date;ps avx|grep dbus Thu Jul 16 01:04:02 WST 2009 12667 ?Ss 0:00 0 346 102733 50456 0.6 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --system 27136 pts/1S+ 0:00 0 101 4166 940 0.0 grep dbus r...@quoll:~ # date;ps avx|grep dbus Thu Jul 16 01:14:50 WST 2009 12667 ?

Re: [Bug 295741] Re: dbus-daemon memory leak

2009-07-16 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Thu, 2009-07-16 at 06:43 +, James Andrewartha wrote: r...@quoll:~ # date;ps avx|grep dbus Thu Jul 16 01:04:02 WST 2009 12667 ?Ss 0:00 0 346 102733 50456 0.6 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --system 27136 pts/1S+ 0:00 0 101 4166 940 0.0 grep dbus

[Bug 295741] Re: dbus-daemon memory leak

2009-07-16 Thread James Andrewartha
OK, I've done this and there's a massif.out, but it's not being added to even though dbus' memory usage is increasing: r...@quoll:~ # date;ps xva|grep dbus Thu Jul 16 22:39:13 WST 2009 14241 pts/1S+ 0:00 0 101 4162 840 0.0 grep dbus 26826 ?Ss 0:01 0 1461

Re: [Bug 295741] Re: dbus-daemon memory leak

2009-07-16 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Thu, 2009-07-16 at 15:07 +, James Andrewartha wrote: OK, I've done this and there's a massif.out, but it's not being added to even though dbus' memory usage is increasing: You need to terminate the dbus process, and then attach the massif.out file ;-) status incomplete Scott --

[Bug 295741] Re: dbus-daemon memory leak

2009-07-16 Thread James Andrewartha
Permissions fail: ==26826== error: can't open output file '/root/massif.out.26824' ==26826==... so profiling results will be missing. I'll try again and set the ownership to messagebus on massif.out this time. -- dbus-daemon memory leak https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/295741 You received

[Bug 295741] Re: dbus-daemon memory leak

2009-07-16 Thread James Andrewartha
** Attachment added: output from valgrind --tool=massif /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --system http://launchpadlibrarian.net/29153450/massif.out.1042 -- dbus-daemon memory leak https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/295741 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 295741] Re: dbus-daemon memory leak

2009-07-16 Thread Scott James Remnant
Thanks, here's that re-printed ** Changed in: dbus (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete = Confirmed ** Attachment added: ms_print.1042 http://launchpadlibrarian.net/29154162/ms_print.1042 -- dbus-daemon memory leak https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/295741 You received this bug notification

[Bug 295741] Re: dbus-daemon memory leak

2009-07-16 Thread Scott James Remnant
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[Bug 295741] Re: dbus-daemon memory leak

2009-07-16 Thread Scott James Remnant
Note that this clearly isn't the original reporter's problem, since the version he is using is later ** Changed in: dbus (Ubuntu) Status: Fix Released = Invalid -- dbus-daemon memory leak https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/295741 You received this bug notification because you are a member

[Bug 295741] Re: dbus-daemon memory leak

2009-07-16 Thread Hei Ku
I tried to kill dbus-daemon, but KWin died on me and it killed my whole session. How can I do it gracefully? -- dbus-daemon memory leak https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/295741 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. --

[Bug 295741] Re: dbus-daemon memory leak

2009-07-15 Thread Scott James Remnant
There's no particular proof that this is a memory leak. Messages have a timeout attached to them, if an application sends messages in very quick succession, they will build up inside D-Bus while it waits for the timeout. If an application continues to send messages, you'll just end up with more

[Bug 295741] Re: dbus-daemon memory leak

2009-07-15 Thread Hei Ku
It renders the machine unusable, and it will even prevent me from restarting kdm. So, if it is not a memory leak, it behaves like one, and whether it is a memory leak or not is just semantics. The problem should be fixed. If it's an excessive load that will render D-Bus unusable, then you have a

Re: [Bug 295741] Re: dbus-daemon memory leak

2009-07-15 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Wed, 2009-07-15 at 12:27 +, Hei Ku wrote: It renders the machine unusable, and it will even prevent me from restarting kdm. So, if it is not a memory leak, it behaves like one, and whether it is a memory leak or not is just semantics. The problem should be fixed. If it's an excessive

[Bug 295741] Re: dbus-daemon memory leak

2009-07-15 Thread Hei Ku
Don't patronize me, please. I know that D-Bus shouldn't take 2GB of RAM and fill in all available swap space while sitting idle. I don't have the same setup as when the bug was reported, but I will try to reproduce it and send the output of ps avx Now, have you tried to reproduce it, or are you

Re: [Bug 295741] Re: dbus-daemon memory leak

2009-07-15 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Wed, 2009-07-15 at 13:14 +, Hei Ku wrote: Don't patronize me, please. I know that D-Bus shouldn't take 2GB of RAM and fill in all available swap space while sitting idle. Then prove it is. Scott -- Scott James Remnant sc...@canonical.com -- dbus-daemon memory leak

[Bug 295741] Re: dbus-daemon memory leak

2009-06-05 Thread Hei Ku
I had the same leak and found it was the Oxygen System Monitor, querying several times per second for Amarok information, even if Amarok is not running. Removing the system monitor from the desktop stopped the leak for me, at least for now. -- dbus-daemon memory leak

[Bug 295741] Re: dbus-daemon memory leak

2009-05-18 Thread Stefan Weiss
Same situation here (Kubuntu Intrepid, dbus-daemon currently at 400M). Unfortunately the mentioned possible workarounds do nothing for me: I don't run vino-server or Akregator, I've disabled Akonadi, and I've stopped using Amarok due to this problem. This is really an unpleasant situation... I

[Bug 295741] Re: dbus-daemon memory leak

2009-05-17 Thread iron4o
Had the same ugly thing myself. Most of my KDE apps (akregator, amarok etc) would cause that dbus-daemon memory leak instantly. The problem is now gone when I stopped the vino-server. Also, solves the problem described in that threat http://www.uluga.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1125401 .

[Bug 295741] Re: dbus-daemon memory leak

2009-05-12 Thread MCVF
Also have this problem in Jaunty. How do I notice? After few days without logging off my system uses 2GB of memory without any application running. Right now, dbus-daemon uses 668MB of resident memory. After relog, my system uses somewhere between 400-800MB with few running applications. I

[Bug 295741] Re: dbus-daemon memory leak

2009-05-05 Thread dark_construct
After upgrading to jaunty, I also have the dbus-daemon memory. I can see it increase in size. I have narrowed it down to using dolphin and kate. I'm not sure if has anything to do with accessing ssh shares, samba shares, etc, because I access many drives with dolphin. Also, I have Kubunu

[Bug 295741] Re: dbus-daemon memory leak

2009-04-18 Thread habtool
I have now installed the RC of jaunty 9.04. Installed all the extra programs I use. The dbus-daemon run away memory leak is still here. Rebooted and individually loaded the programs that I use and leave running.. After running each one I waited to see if dbus-daemon would start increasing

[Bug 295741] Re: dbus-daemon memory leak

2009-04-05 Thread habtool
screenshot of dbus-daemon using 438MG memory. machine uptime was only 20 hours. apt-cache policy dbus dbus: Installed: 1.2.12-0ubuntu2 Candidate: 1.2.12-0ubuntu2 Version table: *** 1.2.12-0ubuntu2 0 500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages 100

[Bug 295741] Re: dbus-daemon memory leak

2009-04-04 Thread habtool
This is happening on Jaunty for me too -- dbus-daemon memory leak https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/295741 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com

[Bug 295741] Re: dbus-daemon memory leak

2009-03-20 Thread tak1150
I have the same problem as well. Running Intrepid with Compiz. I have not been able to determine which program this dbus problem is related to. It happened a few times while I was using OpenOffice 3, banshee, sound-juicer, liferea, firefox, evolution, and others. dbus-daemon all of a sudden

[Bug 295741] Re: dbus-daemon memory leak

2009-01-28 Thread James Andrewartha
Not sure if it's related, but I have one hardy server where dbus-daemon gradually increases its memory usage over time. The only thing using dbus on the server is avahi-daemon. -- dbus-daemon memory leak https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/295741 You received this bug notification because you are a

[Bug 295741] Re: dbus-daemon memory leak

2009-01-26 Thread Brent Cook
If I run kontact, dbus-daemon uses over 2 GB of ram and 100% cpu after a day. Running dbus-monitor shows a constant stream of activity from akonadi. If I kill kontact and the various akonadi services, things go back idle. This is with the latest jaunty, and has been occuring for a couple of weeks.

[Bug 295741] Re: dbus-daemon memory leak

2009-01-22 Thread Eduardo Durany Fernández
Confirmed in Intrepid. After 3 days, dbus-daemon is taking more than 300MB of system memory. Something is wrong with this program. -- dbus-daemon memory leak https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/295741 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to