polkitd process memory continues to grow to 20G

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In gitlab.freedesktop.org by GYShit on Jul 27, 2021, 04:49

Link to the original issue: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/polkit/polkit/-/issues/149 The polkit service starts normally, after 300 days, the memory used by the polkitd process in the host will continue to grow to 20G.

software version： kernel:4.19 polkit:0.115

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In gitlab.freedesktop.org by GYShit on Jul 29, 2021, 14:33

Who can help me?

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In gitlab.freedesktop.org by jrybar on Aug 31, 2021, 13:50

I can see there are issues related to some memory leaks, those are to be tended to later. For now, you can simply restart the service if you have admin privileges.
$ sudo systemctl restart polkit and see if the problem is resolved.

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In gitlab.freedesktop.org by jrybar on Mar 29, 2023, 12:40

Hello @GYShit,
any progress or regression after updating to the newest version?