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

[John Goerzen]

On 11/29/2014 05:09 PM, Cameron Norman wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 2:57 PM, John Goerzen <jgoerzen at complete.org> wrote:
>> I have not yet had the chance to migrate this system to boot with
>> systemd.  The problem is also not yet resolved.  However, the logind
>> processes now consume far less RAM:
>>
>> [snip]
> So you did reboot and the problem persisted? What kernel version are
Correct.
> you running (IIRC someone reported problems with 3.14 and
> systemd-shim, however that was not definite)? And what does `loginctl
$ uname -a
Linux hephaestus 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-2 (2014-11-06)
x86_64 GNU/Linux

> show-sessions` output?
"Unknown operation show-sessions" ;-)  Perhaps you meant list-sessions?

# loginctl list-sessions
   SESSION        UID USER             SEAT           
        c2          0 root             seat0          
         1       1000 jgoerzen         seat0          
      2456          0 root                            
      2457          0 root                            
      2458          0 root                            
      2459          0 root                            
      2460          0 root                            
      2461          0 root                            

8 sessions listed.

>
> Thank you,
> --
> Cameron Norman
>