[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#785258: upower eats gigabytes of RAM

[Andrew Shadura]

Package: upower
Version: 0.99.0-3
Severity: important

This morning I have noticed my system is extremely slow and not very
responsive. I thought it is, as it always happened before, a duo
Iceweasel + Chromium who have om-nom-nommed all of my memory, but no!

Running htop revealed upowerd had about 2700K allocated, more than 2400K
of them resident… and growing!

Killing upowerd brought an immediate effect of returning responsiveness
to my laptop even with both Iceweasel and Chromium running with lots of
tabs open.

How come this could possibly happen? :)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_GB.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/mksh

Versions of packages upower depends on:
ii  dbus                   1.4.16-1
ii  libc6                  2.19-13
ii  libdbus-1-3            1.6.18-1
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2       0.98-1
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.42.1-1
ii  libgudev-1.0-0         175-3.1
ii  libimobiledevice4      1.1.5-2
ii  libplist2              1.11-3
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0  0.105-8
ii  libupower-glib2        0.99.0-3
ii  libusb-1.0-0           2:1.0.12-2
ii  pm-utils               1.4.1-15
ii  systemd                215-16
ii  udev                   215-10

Versions of packages upower recommends:
ii  policykit-1  0.105-8

upower suggests no packages.

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