runaway memory with dbus-daemon --session

Wed Jul 28 17:02:23 UTC 2021

My system was running slow Monday afternoon. Checking the system monitor 
I found that the dbus-daemon process noted above was using 502.9MB of 
memory! Not knowing how else to correct this, I closed out all my 
applications and restarted my system. After the restart this process is 
using 1.6MB of memory.

Has anyone else seen this problem?

Is there a way to cleanly restart this process short of a full system 
shutdown/restart?

In case you need more system specifics:

> |dhdurgee at z560:~/Downloads$ inxi -Fxxxzr System: Kernel: 
> 5.4.0-80-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 9.3.0 Desktop: 
> Cinnamon 4.8.6 wm: muffin 4.8.1 dm: LightDM 1.30.0 Distro: Linux Mint 
> 20.1 Ulyssa base: Ubuntu 20.04 focal Machine: Type: Laptop System: 
> LENOVO product: 0914 v: Ideapad Z560 serial: <filter> Mobo: LENOVO 
> model: N/A serial: <filter> BIOS: LENOVO v: 29CN40WW(V2.17) date: 
> 04/13/2011 Battery: ID-1: BAT1 charge: 36.7 Wh condition: 49.0/47.5 Wh 
> (103%) volts: 11.2/11.1 model: LG PABAS024 type: Li-ion serial: 
> <filter> status: Unknown CPU: Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Core i5 
> M 480 bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Nehalem rev: 5 L2 cache: 3072 KiB 
> flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 21279 
> Speed: 1206 MHz min/max: 1199/2667 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds 
> (MHz): 1: 1386 2: 1370 3: 1365 4: 1437 Graphics: Device-1: Intel Core 
> Processor Integrated Graphics vendor: Lenovo driver: i915 v: kernel 
> bus ID: 00:02.0 chip ID: 8086:0046 Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.9 
> driver: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa resolution: 1366x768~60Hz, 
> 1366x768~60Hz OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel HD Graphics (ILK) v: 
> 2.1 Mesa 20.2.6 direct render: Yes Audio: Device-1: Intel 5 
> Series/3400 Series High Definition Audio vendor: Lenovo driver: 
> snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1b.0 chip ID: 8086:3b56 Sound 
> Server: ALSA v: k5.4.0-80-generic Network: Device-1: Broadcom and 
> subsidiaries BCM4313 802.11bgn Wireless Network Adapter driver: wl v: 
> kernel port: 5000 bus ID: 05:00.0 chip ID: 14e4:4727 IF: wlp5s0 state: 
> down mac: <filter> Device-2: Realtek RTL810xE PCI Express Fast 
> Ethernet vendor: Lenovo driver: r8169 v: kernel port: 2000 bus ID: 
> 06:00.0 chip ID: 10ec:8136 IF: enp6s0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps 
> duplex: full mac: <filter> Drives: Local Storage: total: 465.76 GiB 
> used: 61.11 GiB (13.1%) ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: PNY model: CS900 500GB 
> SSD size: 465.76 GiB speed: 3.0 Gb/s serial: <filter> rev: 0Y13 
> scheme: MBR Partition: ID-1: / size: 19.92 GiB used: 11.32 GiB (56.8%) 
> fs: jfs dev: /dev/sda13 ID-2: swap-1 size: 16.00 GiB used: 0 KiB 
> (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda9 Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 78.0 
> C mobo: N/A Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A Repos: No active apt repos in: 
> /etc/apt/sources.list Active apt repos in: 
> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/additional-repositories.list 1: deb 
> http://silk.apana.org.au/debian stretch main stable-dev unstable-dev 
> 2: deb 
> http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/ubuntuzilla/mozilla/apt all 
> main 3: deb file:/srv/local/packages/local-focal ./ Active apt repos 
> in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list 1: deb 
> http://mirrors.advancedhosters.com/linuxmint/packages ulyssa main 
> upstream import backport 2: deb http://mirrors.wikimedia.org/ubuntu 
> focal main restricted universe multiverse 3: deb 
> http://mirrors.wikimedia.org/ubuntu focal-updates main restricted 
> universe multiverse 4: deb http://mirrors.wikimedia.org/ubuntu 
> focal-backports main restricted universe multiverse 5: deb 
> http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ focal-security main restricted 
> universe multiverse 6: deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ focal 
> partner Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/skype-stable.list 
> 1: deb [arch=amd64] https://repo.skype.com/deb stable main Info: 
> Processes: 211 Uptime: 3h 05m Memory: 7.58 GiB used: 1.81 GiB (23.8%) 
> Init: systemd v: 245 runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 9.3.0 alt: 9 Shell: 
> bash v: 5.0.17 running in: gnome-terminal inxi: 3.0.38 
> dhdurgee at z560:~/Downloads$ |
Dave

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