Bug 471674 - console-kit-deamon spawns too many threads
Summary: console-kit-deamon spawns too many threads
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: ConsoleKit
Version: 11
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Bill Nottingham
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug...
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-11-14 22:44 UTC by Linus Walleij
Modified: 2014-03-17 03:16 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2009-09-24 02:44:16 UTC
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Description Linus Walleij 2008-11-14 22:44:59 UTC
Description of problem:
console-kit-deamon spawns too many threads
it should spawn one for each console, but it spawns 64 threads. Way too much.

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

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
ps -eLf|grep console-kit-daemon|wc -l
  
Actual results:
64

Expected results:
find /sys/class/vc/ | grep vcs | wc -l
= 16

Additional info:
Upstream bug:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17720
Proposed patch from Ubuntu forum:
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/15940846/0001-Autoconfigure-maximum-number-of-kernel-consoles.patch

Comment 1 Bug Zapper 2008-11-26 05:24:31 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 10 development cycle.
Changing version to '10'.

More information and reason for this action is here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping

Comment 2 Fedora Admin XMLRPC Client 2009-04-08 17:00:33 UTC
This package has changed ownership in the Fedora Package Database.  Reassigning to the new owner of this component.

Comment 3 Linus Walleij 2009-04-08 20:14:27 UTC
Move back to rawhide, where it's to be fixed.
See upstream bug at freedesktop.org for details of the fix.

Comment 4 Bug Zapper 2009-06-09 09:52:52 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 11 development cycle.
Changing version to '11'.

More information and reason for this action is here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping

Comment 6 jmccann 2009-09-24 02:44:16 UTC
We'll track this issue upstream.

Comment 7 Linus Walleij 2009-09-25 19:03:19 UTC
Kudos to Lennart for digging upp the root cause and fixing this
the proper way! Thanks.


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