[Bug 148454] Re: console-kit-daemon spawns too many threads

[A. Denton]

See #101 and #128, please. I suggested you to do nothing at all. The
memory consumption has nothing to do with the bugs name "console-kit-
daemon spawns too many threads" (comment #107, #108, #110, #116) in my
opinion. And threads are not "expensive" when it comes to context
changes. Also some people here seem not to understand the concept of
virtual memory. The developer from freedesktop.org pointed that out
AFIR.

My opinion is still: do nothing at all. Neither is it worth the time nor
is this bug from 2007-10-03 still an issue. The old UNIX system V init
system is not the latest technology and superseded mostly although not
exclusively by systemd. Additionally the latest stable kernel version is
now 3.9.3 and in Ubuntu 10.04.x LTS its 3.2.0-xx LTS kernel (until 2016)
or via LES (EnablementStack) its 3.5.0 and 3.8.0 from quantal and raring
respectively.

I do not have the powers to change this bug to WONT FIX state. Someone
here at Launchpad either give that permission to me or mark it as such,
please.

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Title:
  console-kit-daemon spawns too many threads

Status in ConsoleKit:
  Confirmed
Status in “consolekit” package in Ubuntu:
  Opinion
Status in “consolekit” package in Fedora:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  since upgrading to gutsy beta htop shows about fifty processes like
  the following

  pid user pri ni virt res shr s cpu% mem% time+ command
  7582 root 23 0 7456 2016 1336 s 0.0 0.2 0:00.00 /usr/sbin/console-kit-deamon

  It maybe the case that console-kit-daemon starts a thread for each
  console that can theoretically exist. On Linux
  (/usr/include/linux/vt.h) MAX_NR_CONSOLE is defined to be 63.

  Note that those processes do not show up in DEFAULT top or ps output
  --BUT-- if you run either of those tools with the -H parameter, so as
  to display all the threads of a process, then they do show up.

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