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Bug 784229 - gnome-software + packagekitd using ~170M of RAM idling
gnome-software + packagekitd using ~170M of RAM idling
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gnome-software
Classification: Applications
Component: General
3.26.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: GNOME Software maintainer(s)
GNOME Software maintainer(s)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2017-06-26 19:33 UTC by Branko Grubic (bitlord)
Modified: 2018-01-24 17:38 UTC
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Description Branko Grubic (bitlord) 2017-06-26 19:33:45 UTC 
This is maybe related to bug #783662 but I see often after boot gnome-software process and packagekitd running in the background using which I consider a lot of memory while idle. This is case when I never started it during this session and also have no updates checking enabled (which is why I think this could be related to that bug report).

My system currently has 5901M memory reported by 'free -m' and after 4h of uptime packagekitd and gnome-software still running:

USER       PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
bgrubic   2318  0.0  1.5 1111172 95144 tty2    Sl+  17:18   0:02              \_ /usr/bin/gnome-software --gapplication-service
root      1654  0.3  2.2 950220 135628 ?       Ssl  17:17   0:50 /usr/libexec/packagekitd


Running:
PackageKit-1.1.6-2.fc26.x86_64
gnome-software-3.24.3-1.fc26.x86_64

Is there a way I can provide more information?

Thanks.
Comment 1 Branko Grubic (bitlord) 2017-09-17 19:18:43 UTC 
I upgraded to f27 now (gnome 3.26.x), I'm still seeing this behaviour with:
gnome-software-3.25.91-1.fc27.x86_64
PackageKit-1.1.7-1.fc27.x86_64

Without any action on boot, both services are running and using:
packagekitd: ~157MB
gnome-software: ~44MB

Is it possible to get any more information so you can figure out why this is using so much memory. 

Thanks.
Comment 2 Richard Hughes 2017-09-17 19:25:51 UTC 
How are you measuring the ram usage?
Comment 3 Branko Grubic (bitlord) 2017-09-17 19:29:54 UTC 
Two ways:

Output of 'ps aux' gives RAM% and gnome system monitor displaying "Memory" column. If there is any better accurate way, please let me know.

Thanks.
Comment 4 Branko Grubic (bitlord) 2017-09-18 08:43:37 UTC 
Small update, first I made a mistake with a field name of 'ps' it's %MEM, not %RAM, which represents resident memory.

Second, it seems that this memory usage doesn't happen always, currently after boot gnome-software still usese ~44M, but packagekitd ~3.5M, I'm not sure why, but I guess it is related to metadata download, after boot this time it didn't download any metadata (possibly still valid) and that is why memory is still low?
Comment 5 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2018-01-24 17:38:15 UTC 
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