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Bug 2053500

Summary: PackageKit consumes too much memory
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Reporter: Oleksandr Chuchko <ochuchko>
Component: PackageKitAssignee: Richard Hughes <rhughes>
Status: CLOSED MIGRATED QA Contact: Desktop QE <desktop-qa-list>
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Priority: high    
Version: 8.5CC: klember, sbarcomb
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Target Release: ---Flags: pm-rhel: mirror+
Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Linux   
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Description Oleksandr Chuchko 2022-02-11 12:41:47 UTC
Description of problem:

Packagekit consumes over 1G memory. 

# uptime
 14:31:04 up 3 days, 16:38,  3 users,  load average: 0.13, 0.14, 0.17

List of current processes sorted by memory usage:

MiB Mem :   7588.9 total,   1743.8 free,   2242.5 used,   3602.7 buff/cache
MiB Swap:   7912.0 total,   7910.5 free,      1.5 used.   4993.9 avail Mem

    PID USER      PR  NI    VIRT    RES    SHR S  %CPU  %MEM     TIME+ COMMAND
   3383 root      20   0 1333128 784332  31052 S   0.0  10.1   4:32.17 packagekitd
 135166 root      20   0 2289584 559860  41496 S   0.0   7.2   3:19.16 python3
   3518 root      20   0  575848  82712  26268 S   0.0   1.1   1:52.56 rhsm-service
  95356 root      20   0 3036324  78688  37948 S   1.7   1.0   6:15.17 podman


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

# cat /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 8.5 (Ootpa)

# yum provides /usr/libexec/packagekitd
Updating Subscription Management repositories.
Last metadata expiration check: 0:14:46 ago on Fri 11 Feb 2022 02:14:42 PM EET.
PackageKit-1.1.12-2.el8.x86_64 : Package management service
Repo        : rhel-8-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms
Matched from:
Filename    : /usr/libexec/packagekitd

# yum list installed | grep PackageKit
PackageKit.x86_64                             1.1.12-6.el8                              @rhel-8-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms
PackageKit-glib.x86_64                        1.1.12-6.el8                              @rhel-8-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms


How reproducible:

Unknown

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Install RH 8
2. Install cockpit
3. Register to insights 
4. Update system
5. Reboot system

???

Actual results:

Significant memory usage (10% of total system memory)

Expected results:

much lower memory usage

Additional info:

The same problem on two systems, both RH 8.5, memory consumption lower on another systems but still about 500M

Comment 1 RHEL Program Management 2023-09-17 14:52:32 UTC
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Comment 2 RHEL Program Management 2023-09-17 14:56:05 UTC
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