applet causes continuously increasing memory usage on polkitd process

[hyOzd]

I've been using this applet on 3 different machines. All of them had a memory leak regarding the 'polkitd' process. It's memory usage slowly but steadily increased. Since I don't shutdown my computer but rather suspend it, after a couple days, polkitd's memory usage will be around 500MB and I have to restart my system to re-claim the memory.

After seeing this bug report I've noticed the problem was caused by this applet. Removing this applet solved the issue.

[tp0]

I'm having this issue too.

I've even gone way over 500MB sometimes. As a habit I just started killing the polkitd process as killing it doesn't seem to affect anything in a negative way (?).

[haarp]

Can confirm too

[tp0]

~~I reinstalled the applet a few days ago and I have not since encountered this issue again. I wonder if I had the most recent version since the applets do not get auto-updated (?).~~

[flanaman]

This doesn't prove that this applet is the culprit but it has something to do with it for sure:

If you increase the refresh rate to ludicrous speed (say 10ms) you literally watch polkitd's ram usage climb, about 1 MiB every 10 seconds.

(Linux Mint 17.3, Cinnamon 2.8.7, linux 4.2.0-27)

[hyOzd]

@flanaman I confirm your findings.

[deutrino]

This is a problem on Mint 17.3 with kernel 3.13.0-61-generic x86_64.

[cowst]

I have it on Mint 17.3 with 3.19.0-32-generic

[dannn-o]

I also have it on Mint 17.3 with 3.19.0-32

[Brendanbc1]

This seems to be fixed with Mint 18.0 with 4.4.0-24-generic x86_64

[pingbird]

Give debian some love? still an issue with Debian Jessie's default old kernel, ill try upgrading

[mprobst]

This happens to me, too, on a Ubuntu machine.

[maciey]

Same here - centos 7

[muzena]

@maciey Try report issue in cinammon-spices-applets repo. Development is continued there.