[Bug 689593] Re: 2x100% CPU and memory usage growth when performing partition modifications via udisks

[Øyvind Stegard]

Just got hit by this exact problem when trying to erase a USB drive
using startup disk creator in Ubuntu 13.04.

ID 0781:5406 SanDisk Corp. Cruzer Micro U3 (4GB)

(And I've seen it several times before as well, but just assumed the bug
would get fixed eventually and haven't bothered looking into it.)

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Title:
  2x100% CPU and memory usage growth when performing partition
  modifications via udisks

Status in abstraction for enumerating and managing block devices:
  New
Status in “udisks” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  When unsetting the bootable flag on a partition using palimpsest, the
  following things happen:

  - udisks-helper-modify-partition and udisks-daemon processes use 100% CPU each
  - udisks-daemon chews about 18MiB of memory each second

  This problem exists regardless of whether the partition is mounted or
  not.

  natty
  gnome-disk-utility 2.32.1-0ubuntu3
  udisks 1.0.2-1

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