[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#533543: hald-runner churns out a large number of processes

[Piotr Engelking]

Package: hal
Version: 0.5.12~git20090406.46dc48-2
Severity: minor

Most commonly run programs in the last 7 hours:

# sa | sort -n | tail | column -t
174    0.02re     0.00cp  0avio  4631k  mandb*
180    2.07re     0.00cp  0avio  718k   sh
205    0.10re     0.00cp  0avio  496k   sed
244    7.25re     0.65cp  0avio  1323k  hal-acl-tool
321    0.00re     0.00cp  0avio  504k   getent
321    0.01re     0.00cp  0avio  451k   cut
321    0.03re     0.00cp  0avio  712k   pam-foreground-*
321    0.11re     0.00cp  0avio  712k   pam-foreground-
74809  0.12re     0.00cp  0avio  686k   polkit-read-aut
78082  3335.90re  2.18cp  0avio  700k
#

74809 polkit-read-auth-helper processes, spawned by hal-acl-tool, spawned in
turn by hald-runner. 3 processes per second. 233 times more than the next
contender. 23 times more than the rest of the system, combined.

Please consider producing offspring more sparingly.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (400, 'unstable'), (300, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.29 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages hal depends on:
ii  acl          2.2.47-2                    Access control list utilities
ii  adduser      3.110                       add and remove users and groups
ii  consolekit   0.3.0-2                     framework for defining and trackin
ii  dbus         1.2.12-1                    simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  hal-info     20090309-1                  Hardware Abstraction Layer - fdi f
ii  libc6        2.9-12                      GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3  1.2.12-1                    simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib 0.80-4                      simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libexpat1    2.0.1-4                     XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii  libgcc1      1:4.4.0-5                   GCC support library
ii  libglib2.0-0 2.20.1-2                    The GLib library of C routines
ii  libhal-stora 0.5.12~git20090406.46dc48-2 Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libhal1      0.5.12~git20090406.46dc48-2 Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libpolkit2   0.9-3                       library for accessing PolicyKit
ii  libsmbios2   2.0.3.dfsg-1                Provide access to (SM)BIOS informa
ii  libstdc++6   4.4.0-5                     The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libusb-0.1-4 2:0.1.12-13                 userspace USB programming library
ii  libvolume-id 0.141-1                     libvolume_id shared library
ii  lsb-base     3.2-22                      Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  mount        2.15.1~rc1-1                Tools for mounting and manipulatin
ii  pciutils     1:3.1.2-5                   Linux PCI Utilities
ii  pm-utils     1.2.5-2                     utilities and scripts for power ma
ii  policykit    0.9-3                       framework for managing administrat
ii  udev         0.141-1                     /dev/ and hotplug management daemo
ii  usbutils     0.73-10                     Linux USB utilities

Versions of packages hal recommends:
ii  eject           2.1.5+deb1+cvs20081104-6 ejects CDs and operates CD-Changer
ii  libsmbios-bin   2.0.3.dfsg-1             Provide access to (SM)BIOS informa

Versions of packages hal suggests:
pn  gnome-device-manager          <none>     (no description available)

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