[Bug 546231] Re: REGRESSION: avahi-daemon consumes too much CPU

[hamish]

I see this too on a university network (hundreds of printers from dozens
of dept's, etc...), 10.04 LTS.

e.g. 2 hours of CPU use after 6 days of uptime:

avahi     1532  1.4  0.0  35232  2608 ?        SN   May31 124:14 avahi-
daemon: running


workaround 1: uninstall avahi-daemon and all that depends on it
workaround 2: disable the service with `sudo update-rc.d -f avahi-daemon remove`
workaround 3: install the `and` package and auto-nice the avahi user to 19.


(suspect unrelated, but see also bugs #257687 and #655835)

thanks,
Hamish

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Title:
  REGRESSION: avahi-daemon consumes too much CPU

Status in “avahi” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: avahi-daemon

  I just updated from 9.10 to 10.04 beta.  Upon restarting, avahi-daemon
  has been a huge resource hog:

    606 avahi     20   0  4808 2316 1432 R 83.8  0.2  10:02.08 avahi-
  daemon

  I am on a rather rich bonjour network.  uptime is around 30 minutes,
  and avahi has still not piped down.

  
  Package: avahi-daemon
  State: installed
  Automatically installed: no
  Version: 0.6.25-1ubuntu6
  Priority: optional
  Section: net
  Maintainer: Ubuntu Core Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss at lists.ubuntu.com>
  Uncompressed Size: 397k
  Depends: libavahi-common3 (>= 0.6.16), libavahi-core6 (>= 0.6.24), libc6 (>= 2.4), libcap2 (>= 2.10), libdaemon0 (>= 0.12),
           libdbus-1-3 (>= 1.1.1), libexpat1 (>= 1.95.8), upstart-job, adduser, dbus (>= 1.2.16-0ubuntu3), lsb-base (>=
           3.0-6), bind9-host | host
  Recommends: libnss-mdns
  Suggests: avahi-autoipd
  Description: Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD daemon
   Avahi is a fully LGPL framework for Multicast DNS Service Discovery. It allows programs to publish and discover services
   and hosts running on a local network with no specific configuration.  For example you can plug into a network and instantly
   find printers to print to, files to look at and people to talk to. 
   
   This package contains the Avahi Daemon which represents your machine on the network and allows other applications to
   publish and resolve mDNS/DNS-SD records.
  Homepage: http://avahi.org/