Same here, this time on Debian 3.16.43-2+deb8u1 with kernel 3.16.0-4-amd64. I know this is an Ubuntu forum, but this bug ticket is the closest one for this issue that I could find. Package accountsservice has version 0.6.37-3+b1.
This machine is running ProFTPd 1.3.5 with a high number of FTP sessions. As you can see the wtmp file gets rather large: -rw------- 1 root utmp 3072 Jul 14 09:53 btmp -rw------- 1 root utmp 44259072 Jul 17 16:07 wtmp -rw------- 1 root utmp 119944320 Jul 17 07:49 wtmp.1 -rw------- 1 root utmp 120503424 Jul 16 07:35 wtmp.2 -rw------- 1 root utmp 120549888 Jul 15 07:35 wtmp.3 This is probably the reason why accounts-daemon is eating away most of by CPU: PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 587 root 20 0 481984 98616 2520 R 73.5 9.6 1204:19 accounts-daemon -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1316830 Title: /usr/lib/accountsservice/accounts-daemon :: memory and CPU time leak To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/accountsservice/+bug/1316830/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
