Bug 732573 - multiple xfdesktop processes spawned on login consuming many memory
Summary: multiple xfdesktop processes spawned on login consuming many memory
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: xfdesktop
Version: 15
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
unspecified
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Kevin Fenzi
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-08-23 00:30 UTC by Ataliba Teixeira
Modified: 2012-08-07 19:55 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2012-08-07 19:55:15 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Xfce 5123 0 None None None Never

Description Ataliba Teixeira 2011-08-23 00:30:17 UTC
Description of problem:

My login is very slow, because xfdesktop using many of my memory and put my processor use on 99% . 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): xfdesktop-4.8.2-1.fc15.i686

How reproducible:

I had this problem on my logins on xfce4 on Fedora 14 and Fedora 15.


Additional info:

When logging into an xfce session, multiple xfdesktop proccess are spawned. 
At this momento, I had 135 proccess on my computer. 
To solve this problem, last time, I need to clear the config of ~/.config/xfce4.

Comment 1 Ataliba Teixeira 2011-08-23 00:31:03 UTC
I see an bug on Ubuntu, like my problem. 

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xfdesktop4/+bug/335441

Comment 2 Kevin Fenzi 2011-08-23 03:35:57 UTC
This is upstream bug 5123. It's not shown up in a while... ;( I had hoped it was solved. 

Was this machine an upgrade? Or a clean install? 

Can you get the duplicate entries to appear again? Or was it a one time issue?

Comment 3 Ataliba Teixeira 2011-08-23 12:56:19 UTC
Hello,

this is a clean install. When I try to update my Fedora to the new version ( 15 ), I had some problems. But my home ( /home/user ) is untouched. 

At this login, the xfdesktop has 98 proccess. 

I had this problem in two of my machines ( work and House ). 

Now, I will clear the config of xfce4 ( ~/.config/xfce4 ) to try.

If I don't have the solution cleaning the config, the problem isn't solved :(

Comment 4 Ataliba Teixeira 2011-08-23 14:01:32 UTC
Well, I try to clear the config of xfce4 and the problem is here again. 

Now, I had 95 process of xfdesktop. 

I will try now to clear the xfce-sessions.

Comment 5 Ataliba Teixeira 2011-10-22 16:06:34 UTC
Hello, 

I tried two workarounds to solve this problem.

One, is a shell script to kill all xfdestkop process on my login : 

#!/bin/sh 

{

   while true 
    do 
          sleep 2
          
          Count=$(ps aux | grep xfdesktop | grep -v killxfdesktopd | grep -v grep | wc -l)

          if [ $Count -gt 1 ]; then 
             /usr/bin/logger -t XFDesktopd "Killing XFDesktop Process"
	     kill -9 $(ps aux | grep xfdesktop | grep -v killxfdesktopd |awk -F" " '{print $2}')
          else 
	    if [ $Count -eq 0 ]; then 
                /usr/bin/logger -t XFDesktopd "Starting XFDesktop Process"
  		/usr/bin/xfdesktop & 
            fi
	  fi
    done
          
} & 


But this script is giving me some problems with some xfdesktop components. 

Today, I see a workaround on ubuntu launchpad ( https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xfdesktop4/+bug/329616 ) 

Here, this workaround solves my problem. 

I made this: 

1. rm -rf ~/.cache/sessions/*
   This delete all the xfdesktop sessions
2. logout 
3. ctrl+alt+f(x)
4. rm -rfv /home/youruser/.config/sessions/*

I reboot my system and now ... I don't have problems. 

On the launchpad the user send another workarounds to solve this problem. 

I believe I had many sessions saved and my xfdesktop had problems to manage them.

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