Public bug reported: After geoclue 2 running at high CPU for some minutes I found CPU usage had dropped to zero but geoclue was still hogging a whopping 11GB of memory (the PC has 16GB). I stopped the geoclue service to recover the memory.
Kubuntu 18.04 $ apt-cache policy geoclue-2.0 geoclue-2.0: Installed: 2.4.7-1ubuntu1 Candidate: 2.4.7-1ubuntu1 Version table: *** 2.4.7-1ubuntu1 500 500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status Happy to provide other info on request. ** Affects: geoclue (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1827498 Title: Geoclue 2 very high memory usage To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/geoclue/+bug/1827498/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs