Bug#765870: systemd-logind brings system to knees with RAM consumption

[John Goerzen]

Here is some further information.

Yesterday, I ran dist-upgrade on this machine.  It pulled in updates in
jessie for systemd-shim, among others.

Look at this:

$ ps auxww | grep -i logind
root      1792  0.0  0.0  28388  2912 ?        S    Nov21   0:00
/lib/systemd/systemd-logind
root      5625  0.0  0.0  28388  3016 ?        S    Nov21   0:00
/lib/systemd/systemd-logind
root      9480  0.0  0.0  28388  2920 ?        S    Nov21   0:00
/lib/systemd/systemd-logind
root     11706  0.0  0.0  28388  2928 ?        S    Nov21   0:00
/lib/systemd/systemd-logind
root     16052  0.0  0.0  28388  2880 ?        S    Nov21   0:00
/lib/systemd/systemd-logind
jgoerzen 17076  0.0  0.0  12720  2256 pts/8    S+   07:56   0:00 grep -i
logind
root     18714  0.0  0.0  28388  2984 ?        S    01:22   0:00
/lib/systemd/systemd-logind
root     22084  0.0  0.0  28388  2896 ?        S    Nov21   0:00
/lib/systemd/systemd-logind
root     24610  0.0  0.0  28388  2920 ?        S    03:21   0:00
/lib/systemd/systemd-logind
root     27307  0.0  0.2  46488 16996 ?        S    Nov21   0:02
/lib/systemd/systemd-logind
root     30566  0.0  0.0  28388  2988 ?        S    06:00   0:00
/lib/systemd/systemd-logind


I've still got a lot of these processes running, but now most of them
are only using 3MB of RAM!  Quite the improvement.

I am going to reboot shortly and see if I can gather some more
information on whether they go away properly now.

John