High CPU usage by polkitd on Cinnamon
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milan.bracke
High CPU usage by polkitd on Cinnamon
polkitd usually uses around 10-30%CPU on my netbook (specs: https://www.sony.co.uk/support/en/conte ... B3V1E/list). It happens on both Mint 17.3 (Dutch version) and Fedora 23. (I use the same home partition for both.) But it doesn't happen when using Gnome on Fedora. I looked at the system dbus and the network manager is causing a lot of traffic.
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gmorehouse
Re: High CPU usage by polkitd on Cinnamon
Edit: Possibly related to Multi-Core System Monitor applet for Cinnamon panel: https://unlockforus.com/policykit-high- ... -just-yet/
I have a problem with polkitd leaking memory and eventually growing to enormous size in physmem usage (well over 1GB when the system has been up for a while).
I did not notice this before upgrading to Mint 17.3 (Cinnamon). The various threads and bug reports from ~2010-2012 about pulseaudio are not relevant to this problem.
Some suspicious output in /var/log/syslog, given that other people have noted NetworkManager may be a culprit. It doesn't spew millions of log lines like some other problems with polkitd eating memory or CPU, but, those log lines are 10 minutes old as of this post. 'grep GDBus.Error syslog | wc -l' reveals 1278 such error messages, all within a two-second span of time.
I don't know if the logs are relevant, but they are suspicious. I also don't know how to ask polkitd what may be querying it repeatedly, or similar, and would like some help with that.
The logs:
I have a problem with polkitd leaking memory and eventually growing to enormous size in physmem usage (well over 1GB when the system has been up for a while).
I did not notice this before upgrading to Mint 17.3 (Cinnamon). The various threads and bug reports from ~2010-2012 about pulseaudio are not relevant to this problem.
Some suspicious output in /var/log/syslog, given that other people have noted NetworkManager may be a culprit. It doesn't spew millions of log lines like some other problems with polkitd eating memory or CPU, but, those log lines are 10 minutes old as of this post. 'grep GDBus.Error syslog | wc -l' reveals 1278 such error messages, all within a two-second span of time.
I don't know if the logs are relevant, but they are suspicious. I also don't know how to ask polkitd what may be querying it repeatedly, or similar, and would like some help with that.
The logs:
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Apr 10 13:16:54 mybox NetworkManager[1347]: <warn> error requesting auth for org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.wifi.share.protected: (8) GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.LimitsExceeded: The maximum number of pending replies per connection has been reached
Apr 10 13:16:54 mybox NetworkManager[1347]: <warn> error requesting auth for org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.wifi.share.open: (8) GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.LimitsExceeded: The maximum number of pending replies per connection has been reached
Apr 10 13:16:54 mybox NetworkManager[1347]: <warn> error requesting auth for org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.settings.modify.system: (8) GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.LimitsExceeded: The maximum number of pending replies per connection has been reached
Apr 10 13:16:54 mybox NetworkManager[1347]: <warn> error requesting auth for org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.settings.modify.own: (8) GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.LimitsExceeded: The maximum number of pending replies per connection has been reached
Apr 10 13:16:54 mybox NetworkManager[1347]: <warn> error requesting auth for org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.settings.modify.hostname: (8) GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.LimitsExceeded: The maximum number of pending replies per connection has been reached