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

[John Goerzen]

On 10/25/2014 11:53 AM, intrigeri wrote:
> Control: tag -1 + moreinfo
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> Hi John,
>
> John Goerzen wrote (18 Oct 2014 19:49:28 GMT) :
>> [...] I discovered numerous systemd-logind processes hogging RAM.
>> Specifically, 41 processes using 4278148KB (or roughly 4GB) of RAM.
> Wow.
>
> It would be good to know at what pace these processes appeared (and
> then, why). May you please look in the journal:
>
>   # journalctl  -u systemd-logind.service
>
> ... to try and find why this happens?

Unfortunately:

# journalctl  -u systemd-logind.service
No journal files were found.

I have to killall systemd-logind about once every 48 hours to keep the
machine from crashing.

It was running jessie for a long time and recently got updated.

John