Bug#788622: systemd-logind regularly eats over 20% of system resources

[Martin-Éric Racine]

2015-06-13 16:34 GMT+03:00 Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org>:
> ControL: tags -1 moreinfo unreproducible
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> Am 13.06.2015 um 15:30 schrieb Martin-Éric Racine:
>> Package: systemd
>> Version: 215-17+deb8u1
>> Severity: important
>>
>> systemd-logind regularly eats over 20% of system resources. Whenever that happens, the whole desktop crawls to a stop and GNOME marks all applications as currently unresponsive. Clicking on GNOME's offer to kill each application also fails, since the whole desktop is irresponsive even though the mouse can still be moved around the screen.
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> Please strace the process and attach the (compressed) output.
>
> How can we reproduce the problem?

Not knowing exactly what processed launched systemd-logind ('ps' shows
as launched by root as /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-logind, but without a
parent process), I wouldn't know.

Martin-Éric