Today I noticed the packagekitid process using more than 12% CPU Had to kill it to get my system up to speed again.
I have the distinct impression there is an interference with Firefox somewhere. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to packagekit in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1249343 Title: Packagekitd eating RAM, CPU Status in “packagekit” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Since updating to saucy, packagekitd seems to eat all my memory, turning computer sluggish. If I kill it it respawns soon and quickly eats half the RAM. I have seen even seen VM size > 10G, with resident set sizes of 1-3G, way too much for a computer with 4G of RAM. I do not know how to debug the issue; however looking at the /proc/pid/fd shows something even more dubious, there are 578 open file descriptors to files in /var; all apt-lists and /var/lib/dpkg/status are opened with 12 filedescriptors? Also, /var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin seems to be memmapped quite some many times: 7f3b660c6000-7f3b68494000 rw-p 00000000 fc:08 1246201 /var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin 7f3b68c95000-7f3b6b063000 rw-p 00000000 fc:08 1246201 /var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin 7f3b6b864000-7f3b6dc32000 rw-p 00000000 fc:08 1246201 /var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin 7f3b6dc32000-7f3b70000000 rw-p 00000000 fc:08 1246201 /var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin 7f3b744f9000-7f3b768c7000 rw-p 00000000 fc:08 1246201 /var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin 7f3b79496000-7f3b7b864000 rw-p 00000000 fc:08 1245278 /var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin (deleted) 7f3b7b864000-7f3b7dc32000 rw-p 00000000 fc:08 1245278 /var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin (deleted) 7f3b7dc32000-7f3b80000000 rw-p 00000000 fc:08 1245278 /var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin (deleted) 7f3b85c32000-7f3b88000000 rw-p 00000000 fc:08 1245278 /var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin (deleted) 7f3b8c928000-7f3b8ecf6000 rw-p 00000000 fc:08 1245278 /var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin (deleted) 7f3b928c7000-7f3b94c95000 rw-p 00000000 fc:08 1245278 /var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin (deleted) 7f3b95496000-7f3b97864000 rw-p 00000000 fc:08 1245278 /var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin (deleted) 7f3b97864000-7f3b99c32000 rw-p 00000000 fc:08 1245278 /var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin (deleted) 7f3b99c32000-7f3b9c000000 rw-p 00000000 fc:08 1245278 /var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin (deleted) 7f3ba08c3000-7f3ba2c91000 rw-p 00000000 fc:08 1245278 /var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin (deleted) 7f3ba6862000-7f3ba8c30000 rw-p 00000000 fc:08 1245278 /var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin (deleted) 7f3ba9431000-7f3bab7ff000 rw-p 00000000 fc:08 1245278 /var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin (deleted) 7f3bb02f0000-7f3bb26be000 rw-p 00000000 fc:08 1245278 /var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin (deleted) 7f3bb26be000-7f3bb4a8c000 rw-p 00000000 fc:08 1245278 /var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin (deleted) 7f3bb4a8c000-7f3bb6e5a000 rw-p 00000000 fc:08 1245278 /var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin (deleted) 7f3bbb0cf000-7f3bbd49d000 rw-p 00000000 fc:08 1245278 /var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin (deleted) 7f3bbe342000-7f3bc0710000 rw-p 00000000 fc:08 1245278 /var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin (deleted) 7f3bc15b5000-7f3bc3983000 rw-p 00000000 fc:08 1245278 /var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin (deleted) 7f3bc4828000-7f3bc6bf6000 rw-p 00000000 fc:08 1245278 /var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin (deleted) 7f3bc7864000-7f3bc9c32000 rw-p 00000000 fc:08 1245278 /var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin (deleted) ---- Description: Ubuntu 13.10 Release: 13.10 packagekit: Installed: 0.8.10-2ubuntu2 Candidate: 0.8.10-2ubuntu2 Version table: *** 0.8.10-2ubuntu2 0 500 http://se.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ saucy/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/packagekit/+bug/1249343/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
