[Bug 1275193] Re: usb-creator format disk causes udisks-daemon hogging mem and cpu

Graeme graeme at sudo.ca
Wed Mar 5 20:10:00 UTC 2014


I just saw this behaviour as well. Here's the output of top I managed to
capture with mem and cpu usage before it ground my system to a halt:

top - 12:03:51 up 14 days,  1:54,  4 users,  load average: 5.22, 5.50, 3.16
Tasks: 297 total,   4 running, 291 sleeping,   0 stopped,   2 zombie
%Cpu(s):  2.9 us,  0.9 sy,  0.1 ni, 96.0 id,  0.1 wa,  0.0 hi,  0.0 si,  0.0 st
KiB Mem:  16465108 total, 16297996 used,   167112 free,        0 buffers
KiB Swap: 11811176 total,   697772 used, 11113404 free,    70728 cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S  %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND                                                                                                        
17893 root      20   0 16.2g  11g  904 R  96.7 74.8   8:51.44 udisks-daemon                                                                                                  
17912 root      20   0 30060 1128  812 R  96.7  0.0   8:53.24 udisks-helper-m                                                                                                
 1769 root      20   0  541m 302m  37m S  38.7  1.9 131:04.29 Xorg                                                                                                           
 3524 graeme    20   0 2084m 367m  33m S   6.4  2.3 130:14.14 compiz                                                                                                         
 5264 graeme    20   0 4107m 2.0g  13m S   6.4 12.7   1252:50 firefox                                                                                                        
    1 root      20   0 27624 2308  636 S   0.0  0.0   0:01.67 init                                                                                                           
    2 root      20   0     0    0    0 S   0.0  0.0   0:00.12 kthreadd

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Title:
  usb-creator format disk causes udisks-daemon hogging mem and cpu

Status in “udisks” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Note: I restarted my system to get my computer working properly. These
  attachments may be useless.

  I was trying to create a bootable usb stick with usb-creator. I
  clicked "format disk".

  (What you expected to happen)

  I expect this utilty to wipe my usb stick so that the iso can be
  installed onto it.

  (What happened instead)

  It said something like "dbus did not send a reply", and the system was
  frozen. I got into the tty and ran top there, finding that udisks-
  daemon is hogging both cpu and memory, and another process udisks-
  helper-modify-partion hogging only cpu.

  Output from top

  4343 root 20 0 8391m 3.1g 460 R 99.9 81.3 7:41.24 udisks-daemon
  8593 root 20 0 20060 504 408 R 99.9 0.0 7:41.65 udisks-helper-m

  the second process was truncated by top somehow

  I have a dell inspiron 3421, which came with a ubuntu. I upgraded it
  to 13.10. I have udisks 1.0.4-8ubuntu1, usb-creator-gtk 0.2.50.1, in
  case these are useful

  (PS My English is not very good. Edit my post if you wish.)

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
  Package: udisks 1.0.4-8ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-15.23-generic 3.11.10
  Uname: Linux 3.11.0-15-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2.2
  Architecture: amd64
  CustomUdevRuleFiles: 60-vboxdrv.rules
  Date: Sat Feb  1 14:17:39 2014
  DistributionChannelDescriptor:
   # This is a distribution channel descriptor
   # For more information see http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DistributionChannelDescriptor
   canonical-oem-somerville-precise-amd64-20120703-2
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-11-26 (67 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 "Precise" - Build amd64 LIVE Binary 20120703-15:08
  MachineType: Dell Inc. Inspiron 3421
  MarkForUpload: True
  ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.11.0-15-generic root=UUID=fc929401-c420-44fa-a5e0-f0c74422ac08 ro quiet splash init=/sbin/e4rat-preload vt.handoff=7
  SourcePackage: udisks
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2014-01-29 (2 days ago)
  dmi.bios.date: 09/09/2013
  dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
  dmi.bios.version: A08
  dmi.board.name: 0D94X7
  dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
  dmi.board.version: A08
  dmi.chassis.type: 8
  dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
  dmi.chassis.version: Not Specified
  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA08:bd09/09/2013:svnDellInc.:pnInspiron3421:pvrNotSpecified:rvnDellInc.:rn0D94X7:rvrA08:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvrNotSpecified:
  dmi.product.name: Inspiron 3421
  dmi.product.version: Not Specified
  dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.

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