On Tue, Jan 05, 2016, Matthias Klumpp wrote: > Hmm, are you doing anything special with PK which could trigger this > issue, so I can reproduce it?
No, I’m afraid that’s the strange thing, I don’t do anything with PK. I run a GNOME desktop but have never launched software or performed any action related to packagekitd as far as I can tell. I only install stuff through apt-get. I do have /usr/bin/gnome-software running, which seems to be related to PK, but I suppose it comes with modern GNOME. I do have a large sources.list, though not insanely so (see attachment). strace()ing the PK process shows that it constantly checks for the existence of /system-update and /var/lib/PackageKit/prepared-update. The comment in pk_offline_auth_invalidate() suggests that this should be a rare occurrence, yet it happens every second (I could misunderstand the code; it’s my first time having a look at it). It’s pretty hard to troubleshoot anything because the box is currently quite unresponsive, but I can try to come up with more information if it can help. > PK itself should terminate after idling for a while, freeing any > resources it still uses. Well, it’d be nice if it released those gigabytes of RAM, sure, but I’d be even happier if it actually didn’t need several gigabytes of RAM in order to work :-) Regards, -- Sam.
# Current deb [arch=amd64,i386] http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ experimental main non-free contrib deb-src http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ experimental main non-free contrib deb [arch=amd64,i386] http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ sid main non-free contrib deb-src http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ sid main non-free contrib # Releases deb [arch=amd64,i386] http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ stretch main non-free contrib deb-src http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ stretch main non-free contrib deb [arch=amd64,i386] http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ jessie main non-free contrib deb-src http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ jessie main non-free contrib deb [arch=amd64,i386] http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main non-free contrib deb-src http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main non-free contrib deb [arch=amd64,i386] http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main non-free contrib deb-src http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main non-free contrib # Updates deb [arch=amd64,i386] http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib non-free deb-src http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib non-free deb [arch=amd64,i386] http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main contrib non-free deb-src http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main contrib non-free deb [arch=amd64,i386] http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib non-free deb-src http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib non-free
