Bug 26227 - Memory leak
Summary: Memory leak
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: ConsoleKit
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Daemon (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All Linux (All)
: high normal
Assignee: william.jon.mccann
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Reported: 2010-01-25 13:04 UTC by Colin Jones
Modified: 2012-01-19 02:55 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Attachments
patches for a few bad memory leaks (3.90 KB, patch)
2010-08-02 15:26 UTC, Anders Kaseorg
Details | Splinter Review

Description Colin Jones 2010-01-25 13:04:11 UTC
I'm using Ubuntu 9.10 (consolekit - 0.3.1-0ubuntu2) and have noticed that this daemon continually sucks up more and more physical memory over time, even when the machine is not being used.

It starts around 3.7MB, but then increases. After about 1-2 days it reaches 200MB, I presume it would continue indefinitely but I usually reboot at that point.

I am also trying to chase down another memory issue that massively impacts performance. The box has 2GB of RAM, but something somewhere seems to be using it, but it isn't accounted for anywhere. free -m indicates that it has been used (ignoring cache and buffers of course!), as does System Monitor. But adding up all the processes' Memory (in S.M.) or all the RES/RSS in ps or top falls many hundreds of MBs short, and this gap increases. Quite quickly it gets to the point where the box is swapping constantly, when the number/type/use of apps shouldn't require anything like it. I do not have any reason to assume this is related, but mention it just in case.

Last night, not long after a reboot and before going to bed: (10MB)
root       891  1.0  0.4 122652  9840 ?        Ssl  21:38   0:23 /usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon

This morning after box being unused all last night: (100MB)
root       891  2.2  5.2 221388 108180 ?       Ssl  Jan25  13:33 /usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon
Comment 1 Colin Jones 2010-01-25 13:08:29 UTC
pmap seems to indicate something weird... libraries are being mapped with 2MB chunks each with no permissions against them.

colin@iluvatar:~$ sudo pmap -d 891
891:   /usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon
Address           Kbytes Mode  Offset           Device    Mapping
0000000000400000     128 r-x-- 0000000000000000 008:00001 console-kit-daemon
000000000061f000       4 r---- 000000000001f000 008:00001 console-kit-daemon
0000000000620000       4 rw--- 0000000000020000 008:00001 console-kit-daemon
0000000001af3000   36980 rw--- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f4778000000   33188 rw--- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f477a069000   32348 ----- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f4780000000   38020 rw--- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f4782521000   27516 ----- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f4785ead000       4 ----- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f4785eae000   10240 rw--- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f47868ae000      88 r-x-- 0000000000000000 008:00001 libgcc_s.so.1
00007f47868c4000    2044 ----- 0000000000016000 008:00001 libgcc_s.so.1
00007f4786ac3000       4 r---- 0000000000015000 008:00001 libgcc_s.so.1
00007f4786ac4000       4 rw--- 0000000000016000 008:00001 libgcc_s.so.1
00007f4786ade000       4 ----- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f4786adf000      64 rw--- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f4786aef000       4 ----- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f4786af0000      64 rw--- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f4786b00000       4 ----- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f4786b01000      64 rw--- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f4786b11000       4 ----- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f4786b12000      64 rw--- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f4786b22000       4 ----- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f4786b23000      64 rw--- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f4786b33000       4 ----- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f4786b34000      64 rw--- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f4786b44000       4 ----- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f4786b45000      64 rw--- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f4786b55000       4 ----- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f4786b56000      64 rw--- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f4786b66000       4 ----- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f4786b67000      64 rw--- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f4786b77000       4 ----- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f4786b78000      64 rw--- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f4786b88000       4 ----- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f4786b89000      64 rw--- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f4786b99000       4 ----- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f4786b9a000      64 rw--- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f4786baa000       4 ----- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f4786bab000      64 rw--- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f4786bbb000       4 ----- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f4786bbc000      64 rw--- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f4786bcc000       4 ----- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f4786bcd000      64 rw--- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f4786bdd000       4 ----- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f4786bde000      64 rw--- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f4786bee000       4 ----- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f4786bef000      64 rw--- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f4786bff000       4 ----- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f4786c00000      64 rw--- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f4786c10000       4 ----- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f4786c11000      64 rw--- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f4786c21000       4 ----- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f4786c22000      64 rw--- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f4786c32000       4 ----- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f4786c33000      64 rw--- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f4786c43000       4 ----- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f4786c44000      64 rw--- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f4786c54000       4 ----- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f4786c55000      64 rw--- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f4786c65000       4 ----- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f4786c66000      64 rw--- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f4786c76000       4 ----- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f4786c77000      64 rw--- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f4786c87000       4 ----- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f4786c88000      64 rw--- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f4786c98000       4 ----- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f4786c99000      64 rw--- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f4786ca9000       4 ----- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f4786caa000      64 rw--- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f4786cba000       4 ----- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f4786cbb000      64 rw--- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f4786ccb000       4 ----- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f4786ccc000      64 rw--- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f4786cdc000       4 ----- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f4786cdd000      64 rw--- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f4786ced000       4 ----- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f4786cee000      64 rw--- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f4786cfe000       4 ----- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f4786cff000      64 rw--- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f4786d0f000     112 r-x-- 0000000000000000 008:00001 libselinux.so.1
00007f4786d2b000    2044 ----- 000000000001c000 008:00001 libselinux.so.1
00007f4786f2a000       4 r---- 000000000001b000 008:00001 libselinux.so.1
00007f4786f2b000       4 rw--- 000000000001c000 008:00001 libselinux.so.1
00007f4786f2c000       4 rw--- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f4786f2d000      88 r-x-- 0000000000000000 008:00001 libresolv-2.10.1.so
00007f4786f43000    2044 ----- 0000000000016000 008:00001 libresolv-2.10.1.so
00007f4787142000       4 r---- 0000000000015000 008:00001 libresolv-2.10.1.so
00007f4787143000       4 rw--- 0000000000016000 008:00001 libresolv-2.10.1.so
00007f4787144000       8 rw--- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f4787146000       8 r-x-- 0000000000000000 008:00001 libdl-2.10.1.so
00007f4787148000    2048 ----- 0000000000002000 008:00001 libdl-2.10.1.so
00007f4787348000       4 r---- 0000000000002000 008:00001 libdl-2.10.1.so
00007f4787349000       4 rw--- 0000000000003000 008:00001 libdl-2.10.1.so
00007f478734a000     268 r-x-- 0000000000000000 008:00001 libeggdbus-1.so.0.0.0
00007f478738d000    2048 ----- 0000000000043000 008:00001 libeggdbus-1.so.0.0.0
00007f478758d000       8 r---- 0000000000043000 008:00001 libeggdbus-1.so.0.0.0
00007f478758f000       4 rw--- 0000000000045000 008:00001 libeggdbus-1.so.0.0.0
00007f4787590000     180 r-x-- 0000000000000000 008:00001 libpcre.so.3.12.1
00007f47875bd000    2044 ----- 000000000002d000 008:00001 libpcre.so.3.12.1
00007f47877bc000       4 r---- 000000000002c000 008:00001 libpcre.so.3.12.1
00007f47877bd000       4 rw--- 000000000002d000 008:00001 libpcre.so.3.12.1
00007f47877be000    1432 r-x-- 0000000000000000 008:00001 libc-2.10.1.so
00007f4787924000    2044 ----- 0000000000166000 008:00001 libc-2.10.1.so
00007f4787b23000      16 r---- 0000000000165000 008:00001 libc-2.10.1.so
00007f4787b27000       4 rw--- 0000000000169000 008:00001 libc-2.10.1.so
00007f4787b28000      20 rw--- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f4787b2d000     788 r-x-- 0000000000000000 008:00001 libglib-2.0.so.0.2200.3
00007f4787bf2000    2044 ----- 00000000000c5000 008:00001 libglib-2.0.so.0.2200.3
00007f4787df1000       4 r---- 00000000000c4000 008:00001 libglib-2.0.so.0.2200.3
00007f4787df2000       4 rw--- 00000000000c5000 008:00001 libglib-2.0.so.0.2200.3
00007f4787df3000       4 rw--- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f4787df4000      12 r-x-- 0000000000000000 008:00001 libgmodule-2.0.so.0.2200.3
00007f4787df7000    2044 ----- 0000000000003000 008:00001 libgmodule-2.0.so.0.2200.3
00007f4787ff6000       4 r---- 0000000000002000 008:00001 libgmodule-2.0.so.0.2200.3
00007f4787ff7000       4 rw--- 0000000000003000 008:00001 libgmodule-2.0.so.0.2200.3
00007f4787ff8000     272 r-x-- 0000000000000000 008:00001 libgobject-2.0.so.0.2200.3
00007f478803c000    2048 ----- 0000000000044000 008:00001 libgobject-2.0.so.0.2200.3
00007f478823c000       4 r---- 0000000000044000 008:00001 libgobject-2.0.so.0.2200.3
00007f478823d000       4 rw--- 0000000000045000 008:00001 libgobject-2.0.so.0.2200.3
00007f478823e000       4 rw--- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f478823f000     664 r-x-- 0000000000000000 008:00001 libgio-2.0.so.0.2200.3
00007f47882e5000    2048 ----- 00000000000a6000 008:00001 libgio-2.0.so.0.2200.3
00007f47884e5000       8 r---- 00000000000a6000 008:00001 libgio-2.0.so.0.2200.3
00007f47884e7000       4 rw--- 00000000000a8000 008:00001 libgio-2.0.so.0.2200.3
00007f47884e8000       4 rw--- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f47884e9000     116 r-x-- 0000000000000000 008:00001 libpolkit-gobject-1.so.0.0.0
00007f4788506000    2048 ----- 000000000001d000 008:00001 libpolkit-gobject-1.so.0.0.0
00007f4788706000       4 r---- 000000000001d000 008:00001 libpolkit-gobject-1.so.0.0.0
00007f4788707000       4 rw--- 000000000001e000 008:00001 libpolkit-gobject-1.so.0.0.0
00007f4788708000      28 r-x-- 0000000000000000 008:00001 librt-2.10.1.so
00007f478870f000    2044 ----- 0000000000007000 008:00001 librt-2.10.1.so
00007f478890e000       4 r---- 0000000000006000 008:00001 librt-2.10.1.so
00007f478890f000       4 rw--- 0000000000007000 008:00001 librt-2.10.1.so
00007f4788910000      16 r-x-- 0000000000000000 008:00001 libgthread-2.0.so.0.2200.3
00007f4788914000    2044 ----- 0000000000004000 008:00001 libgthread-2.0.so.0.2200.3
00007f4788b13000       4 r---- 0000000000003000 008:00001 libgthread-2.0.so.0.2200.3
00007f4788b14000       4 rw--- 0000000000004000 008:00001 libgthread-2.0.so.0.2200.3
00007f4788b15000      92 r-x-- 0000000000000000 008:00001 libpthread-2.10.1.so
00007f4788b2c000    2044 ----- 0000000000017000 008:00001 libpthread-2.10.1.so
00007f4788d2b000       4 r---- 0000000000016000 008:00001 libpthread-2.10.1.so
00007f4788d2c000       4 rw--- 0000000000017000 008:00001 libpthread-2.10.1.so
00007f4788d2d000      16 rw--- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f4788d31000     244 r-x-- 0000000000000000 008:00001 libdbus-1.so.3.4.0
00007f4788d6e000    2048 ----- 000000000003d000 008:00001 libdbus-1.so.3.4.0
00007f4788f6e000       4 r---- 000000000003d000 008:00001 libdbus-1.so.3.4.0
00007f4788f6f000       4 rw--- 000000000003e000 008:00001 libdbus-1.so.3.4.0
00007f4788f70000     128 r-x-- 0000000000000000 008:00001 libdbus-glib-1.so.2.1.0
00007f4788f90000    2048 ----- 0000000000020000 008:00001 libdbus-glib-1.so.2.1.0
00007f4789190000       4 r---- 0000000000020000 008:00001 libdbus-glib-1.so.2.1.0
00007f4789191000       4 rw--- 0000000000021000 008:00001 libdbus-glib-1.so.2.1.0
00007f4789192000     124 r-x-- 0000000000000000 008:00001 ld-2.10.1.so
00007f47891b1000       4 ----- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f47891b2000      64 rw--- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f47891c2000       4 ----- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f47891c3000      64 rw--- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f47891d3000       4 ----- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f47891d4000      64 rw--- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f47891e4000       4 ----- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f47891e5000      64 rw--- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f47891f5000       4 ----- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f47891f6000      64 rw--- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f4789206000       4 ----- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f4789207000      64 rw--- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f4789217000       4 ----- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f4789218000      64 rw--- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f4789228000       4 ----- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f4789229000      64 rw--- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f4789239000       4 ----- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f478923a000      64 rw--- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f478924a000       4 ----- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f478924b000      64 rw--- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f478925b000       4 ----- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f478925c000      64 rw--- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f478926c000       4 ----- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f478926d000      64 rw--- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f478927d000       4 ----- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f478927e000      64 rw--- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f478928e000       4 ----- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f478928f000      64 rw--- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f478929f000       4 ----- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f47892a0000      64 rw--- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f47892b0000       4 ----- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f47892b1000      64 rw--- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f47892c1000       4 ----- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f47892c2000      64 rw--- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f47892d2000       4 ----- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f47892d3000      64 rw--- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f47892e3000       4 ----- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f47892e4000      64 rw--- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f47892f4000       4 ----- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f47892f5000      64 rw--- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f4789305000       4 ----- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f4789306000      64 rw--- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f4789316000       4 ----- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f4789317000      64 rw--- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f4789327000       4 ----- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f4789328000      64 rw--- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f4789338000       4 ----- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f4789339000      64 rw--- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f4789349000       4 ----- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f478934a000      64 rw--- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f478935a000       4 ----- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f478935b000      64 rw--- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f478936b000       4 ----- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f478936c000      64 rw--- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f478937c000       4 ----- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f478937d000      92 rw--- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f4789394000       4 ----- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f4789395000      68 rw--- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f47893a6000      28 r--s- 0000000000000000 008:00001 gconv-modules.cache
00007f47893ad000      12 rw--- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
00007f47893b0000       4 r---- 000000000001e000 008:00001 ld-2.10.1.so
00007f47893b1000       4 rw--- 000000000001f000 008:00001 ld-2.10.1.so
00007fff43106000      84 rw--- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ stack ]
00007fff43198000       4 r-x-- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
ffffffffff600000       4 r-x-- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
mapped: 222472K    writeable/private: 122660K    shared: 28K
Comment 2 william.jon.mccann 2010-01-28 15:41:25 UTC
Can you reproduce this with the latest release or from git?  Thanks.  Might be good to try to get some valgrind info too.
Comment 3 Colin Jones 2010-01-28 18:56:01 UTC
(In reply to comment #2)
> Can you reproduce this with the latest release or from git?  Thanks.  Might be
> good to try to get some valgrind info too.

eek, a bit beyond me! I don't suppose there is a deb anywhere that I can use on Ubuntu 0910 64bit? Compiling from source is only going to get me in trouble!
Comment 4 Colin Jones 2010-02-07 01:30:52 UTC
Hello?? I have downloaded the latest source, but can't even work out how to compile it and there are no instructions. Doesn't seem to be the usual ./configure ,,, make ... make install process....
Comment 5 Colin Jones 2010-02-14 23:33:11 UTC
seriously, I need help here! After only 1 day and 6 hours uptime:

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND            
  959 root      20   0  405m 291m 1864 S   13 14.5  82:21.37 console-kit-dae    
18974 colin     20   0  751m 148m  13m S    1  7.4  16:25.05 firefox            
 2242 root      20   0  199m 141m 2160 S    1  7.0   7:33.82 polkitd            
27313 colin     20   0  784m 121m  14m S    0  6.1   2:08.98 cairo-dock         
16807 root      20   0  290m 113m  12m S    3  5.6  26:06.31 Xorg               
17198 colin     20   0  359m  86m 5608 S    0  4.3   2:55.99 polkit-gnome-au    

Console-kit-daemon, polkitd and polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 are consuming over 0.5GB between them!

I would love to try the latest version, but simply can't work out how to compile it, what compilation tools I need, and what other dependencies there are...


please can you help, as this is crippling my machine daily.
Comment 6 Colin Jones 2010-03-22 16:52:34 UTC
Forget it.... its perfectly clear from all your other tickets that this is your modus operandi, its a shame such a great project has such an unresponsive, discourtious dev involved.
Comment 7 Michael Hull 2010-04-15 18:34:49 UTC
I'm running Ubuntu 9.10 x64 with consolekit 0.3.1-0ubuntu2. This workstation has been setting idle fresh from a reboot without logging in for the past two days, and I appear to be suffering from the same issue as this bug report describes.

 18:21:05 up 2 days,  2:54,  4 users,  load average: 1.07, 1.52, 1.75

Mem:   2056992k total,  1989884k used,    67108k free,    94448k buffers
Swap:  6024332k total,    78180k used,  5946152k free,   300644k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND                                                    
 1192 root      20   0  753m 558m 1932 S   10 27.8 248:28.92 console-kit-dae   

My pmap looks very similar, only larger numbers.

I am familiar with valgrind, but I haven't dug into how consolekit works.  If someone could give me some quick guidance on how to profile consolekit.  I'll have 20 or 30 minutes tomorrow evening to try to dig into why this is happening.
Comment 8 Anders Kaseorg 2010-08-02 12:38:16 UTC
At least one memory leak is easy to reproduce by running a loop like

  ssh-copy-id localhost
  while true; do ssh localhost true; done

and watching console-kit-daemon’s resident memory usage go up by tens of kilobytes per second in `top`.

(I’m running consolekit 0.4.1-4 on Ubuntu maverick amd64.)
Comment 9 Anders Kaseorg 2010-08-02 15:26:08 UTC
Created attachment 37533 [details] [review]
patches for a few bad memory leaks

These three patches fix most of the really bad (per-session) memory leaks I found with valgrind.  (Apply with `git am`.)

There is still one worrisome leak within dbus-glib that might or might not be ConsoleKit’s fault:

==4766== 2,400 bytes in 150 blocks are definitely lost in loss record 997 of 1,005
==4766==    at 0x4C284A8: malloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:236)
==4766==    by 0x6282514: g_malloc (gmem.c:134)
==4766==    by 0x6297749: g_slice_alloc (gslice.c:836)
==4766==    by 0x6298F62: g_slist_append (gslist.c:229)
==4766==    by 0x4E394C1: dbus_g_connection_register_g_object (dbus-gobject.c:2373)
==4766==    by 0x40F127: register_session (ck-session.c:147)
==4766==    by 0x40F577: ck_session_new_with_parameters (ck-session.c:1249)
==4766==    by 0x408FC7: collect_parameters_cb (ck-manager.c:1621)
==4766==    by 0x40DF4F: job_completed (ck-session-leader.c:390)
==4766==    by 0x59EB69D: g_closure_invoke (gclosure.c:766)
==4766==    by 0x5A02DA8: signal_emit_unlocked_R (gsignal.c:3252)
==4766==    by 0x5A04525: g_signal_emit_valist (gsignal.c:2983)

But at least it’s much smaller than the ones I fixed.
Comment 10 william.jon.mccann 2010-08-03 12:00:01 UTC
Review of attachment 37533 [details] [review]:

Thanks for tracking these down!  The review tool doesn't cope very well with having two different patches for the same file apparently so I'm not sure this review will look as intended.  Apart from the unref issues I mentioned this looks good.

::: src/ck-manager.c
@@ +1256,1 @@
 }

This isn't right.  Functions shouldn't generally unref passed in parameters as a side effect.

@@ +1273,1 @@
 }

Also not right for the same reason.

@@ +1287,3 @@
         log_seat_session_removed_event (manager, seat, ssid);
+
+        g_free (ssid);

We don't need to take a new ref here since we already have one in this context.
Comment 11 Anders Kaseorg 2010-08-03 12:18:43 UTC
> This isn't right.  Functions shouldn't generally unref passed in parameters as
> a side effect.

I’m pretty sure I needed to do it that way, because ck_session_leader_collect_parameters stashes the callback and the leader away in the pending_jobs queue rather than running the callback immediately.  With your modified version of my patch that you committed, is there anything to prevent the leader from being freed while the job is still in the queue?
Comment 12 william.jon.mccann 2010-08-03 12:33:26 UTC
(In reply to comment #11)
> your modified version of my patch that you committed, is there anything to
> prevent the leader from being freed while the job is still in the queue?

The hash table holds a ref.  So I don't think it should happen.
Comment 13 Anders Kaseorg 2010-08-03 12:35:21 UTC
(In reply to comment #12)
> The hash table holds a ref.  So I don't think it should happen.

But still, what stops the hash table entry from being removed while the job is still in the queue?
Comment 14 Matthias Urlichs 2010-09-27 02:10:36 UTC
Quite frankly, the patch look like it makes a whole lot of sense.

Meanwhile, users see their servers die or hang because the daemon eats memory like crazy. Please either apply the patch, or find some other way to stop the leak. Thank you.
Comment 15 Anders Kaseorg 2010-09-27 10:30:39 UTC
(In reply to comment #14)
> Please either apply the patch, or find some other way to stop the leak.

William already applied a modified version of my patch for 0.4.2.  The leak should already be gone.
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/ConsoleKit/commit/?id=7b9212fa6aff55420c58f2cacd0a941762920337

In the discussion that followed, I was just worried that his modifications introduced a potential use-after-free crash, because the JobData created by ck_session_leader_collect_parameters isn’t holding a reference to its leader.  If there is no way for a CkSessionLeader to be freed with entries remaining in its pending_jobs queue (previously this was prevented by the missing unref in create_session_for_sender), then that isn’t a concern and this can be closed.  Otherwise, perhaps this presentation makes it clearer why the extra ref and unref are okay?

--- a/src/ck-session-leader.c
+++ b/src/ck-session-leader.c
@@ -409,6 +409,7 @@ job_completed (CkJob     *job,
 static void
 job_data_free (JobData *data)
 {
+        g_object_unref (data->leader);
         g_free (data);
 }
 
@@ -428,7 +429,7 @@ ck_session_leader_collect_parameters (CkSessionLeader        *session_leader,
         ret = FALSE;
 
         data = g_new0 (JobData, 1);
-        data->leader = session_leader;
+        data->leader = g_object_ref (session_leader);
         data->done_cb = done_cb;
         data->user_data = user_data;
         data->context = context;
Comment 16 Anders Kaseorg 2011-02-15 15:27:59 UTC
(In reply to comment #15)
> +        g_object_unref (data->leader);
> …
> -        data->leader = session_leader;
> +        data->leader = g_object_ref (session_leader);

William, do you have any comments on this follow-up patch (comment #15)?  Or even just a reason that a CkSessionLeader can’t be freed with entries remaining in its pending_jobs queue, and hence the patch wouldn’t be necessary?
Comment 17 Harald 2012-01-19 01:43:12 UTC
I see this bug hasn't been worked on for a while. Issue is still present!

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1452:   /usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon --no-daemon
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mapped: 1002204K    writeable/private: 996432K    shared: 28K


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