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Bug 598483

Summary:	gdm-simple-greeter uses 100% CPU if password file is big
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	Matthias Schroder <matthias.schroder>
Component:	gdm	Assignee:	jmccann
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	desktop-bugs <desktop-bugs>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	6.0	CC:	caillon, cschalle, rlat, rstrode, tpelka
Target Milestone:	rc	Keywords:	Rebase
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	gdm-2.30.4-2.el6	Doc Type:	Rebase: Bug Fixes and Enhancements
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Last Closed:	2010-11-10 20:27:44 UTC	Type:	---
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Description Matthias Schroder 2010-06-01 13:27:03 UTC

Description of problem: When the password file is big, and disable_user_list is false, gdm-simple-greeter uses 100% CPU for several minutes after startup


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.28.2-5.el6.x86_64


How reproducible: 100%


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Use large password file
2. boot machine
3. watch gdm-simple-greeter hogging CPU
  
Actual results: gdm-simple-greeter hogs CPU


Expected results: CPU available for useful things


Additional info: 

1) Setting disable_user_list to true (I had to search quite a bit to find that one) avoids the issue.

2) This could be related to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=598145

3) Numbers: processing a ~22k password file takes 5 minutes :(

Comment 2 RHEL Program Management 2010-06-07 16:07:47 UTC

This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux major release.  Product Management has requested further
review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux Major release.  This request is not yet committed for
inclusion.

Comment 3 Ray Strode [halfline] 2010-06-11 13:58:26 UTC

Just an update here.

Jon has done considerable work making this quite fast upstream.

Comment 4 Ray Strode [halfline] 2010-06-11 14:30:44 UTC

We should rebase to pull this in.  Otherwise we're going to have a bunch of pointless patches in cvs that will make maintainability more difficult.  The gnome-2-30 branch is all minor bugfixes and translation updates.

Comment 5 Tomas Pelka 2010-06-16 06:54:42 UTC

Reproducer in #c0, giving qa_ack.

Comment 7 jmccann 2010-06-22 18:12:51 UTC

*** Bug 598145 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8 Ray Strode [halfline] 2010-06-29 19:22:28 UTC

Should be good to go.

Comment 10 Matthias Schroder 2010-07-16 13:49:07 UTC

In beta 2 the time it takes for the simple-greeter is ok now. But the gdm-user-switch-applet still needs 1:45, and during that time I don't get the gnome-panel. I admit that the time has decreased significantly, but it is still quite long. And together with https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=610233 this becomes painful...

Comment 11 jmccann 2010-07-16 14:31:06 UTC

Please file a new bug for that.  Can you attach gdb to the user switch applet during this time and interrupt it a few times to see where it is spending time?  Thanks.

Comment 12 Radek Lat 2010-08-17 11:18:01 UTC

Tested with >40k password file on gdm-2.30.4-21.el6.x86_64. No CPU hogging. Moving to VERIFIED.

Comment 13 releng-rhel@redhat.com 2010-11-10 20:27:44 UTC

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0 is now available and should resolve
the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed
with a resolution of CURRENTRELEASE. You may reopen this bug report if the
solution does not work for you.