My system is going slow and I’m researching why.
top - 15:30:25 up 36 days, 18:15, 4 users, load average: 1,46, 1,53, 1,88
Tasks: 211 total, 4 running, 205 sleeping, 0 stopped, 2 zombie
%Cpu(s): 41,2 us, 13,2 sy, 0,0 ni, 45,2 id, 0,3 wa, 0,0 hi, 0,0 si, 0,0 st
KiB Mem: 3690044 total, 3327820 used, 362224 free, 75832 buffers
KiB Swap: 33554424 total, 11948744 used, 21605680 free, 1075588 cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
25048 maria 20 0 5881232 1,332g 6944 R 99,73 37,84 23846:30 polkit-kde-auth
18555 root 20 0 83676 15548 3756 S 4,322 0,421 0:22.73 iotop
polkit-kde-auth???
then I’ve searched in the logs and I found a lot of process polkit-agente-helper-1… well, they are here although they are all two weeks old.
aldebaran: # ps aux |grep polkit
polkitd 790 0.0 0.5 529108 19136 ? Ssl feb08 5:45 /usr/lib/polkit-1/polkitd --no-debug
root 4439 0.0 0.0 85260 240 ? S mar03 0:00 /usr/lib/polkit-1/polkit-agent-helper-1 root cookie5013
root 4505 0.0 0.0 85260 240 ? S mar03 0:00 /usr/lib/polkit-1/polkit-agent-helper-1 root cookie5014
root 4528 0.0 0.0 85260 240 ? S mar03 0:00 /usr/lib/polkit-1/polkit-agent-helper-1 root cookie5015
root 4550 0.0 0.0 85260 240 ? S mar03 0:00 /usr/lib/polkit-1/polkit-agent-helper-1 root cookie5016
root 4609 0.0 0.0 85260 240 ? S mar03 0:00 /usr/lib/polkit-1/polkit-agent-helper-1 root cookie5017
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root 30504 0.0 0.0 85260 240 ? S mar03 0:00 /usr/lib/polkit-1/polkit-agent-helper-1 root cookie5003
root 30535 0.0 0.0 85260 240 ? S mar04 0:00 /usr/lib/polkit-1/polkit-agent-helper-1 root cookie5251
root 30582 0.0 0.0 85260 240 ? S mar03 0:00 /usr/lib/polkit-1/polkit-agent-helper-1 root cookie5004
root 30682 0.0 0.0 85260 240 ? S mar03 0:00 /usr/lib/polkit-1/polkit-agent-helper-1 root cookie5005
I’ve killed them all (sounds like The Lord of The Rings 
)
killall polkit-agent-helper-1
And I see that some begin to appear again.
aldebaran:~ # ps aux |grep polkit
polkitd 790 0.0 0.5 529108 19272 ? Ssl feb08 5:45 /usr/lib/polkit-1/polkitd --no-debug
root 18606 0.0 0.0 85260 2124 ? S 15:29 0:00 /usr/lib/polkit-1/polkit-agent-helper-1 root cookie8429
root 18684 0.3 0.0 85260 2124 ? S 15:35 0:00 /usr/lib/polkit-1/polkit-agent-helper-1 root cookie8430
root 18689 0.0 0.0 11376 920 pts/3 S+ 15:36 0:00 grep --color=auto polkit
root 23446 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z mar04 0:00 [polkit-agent-he] <defunct>
root 23564 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z mar04 0:00 [polkit-agent-he] <defunct>
maria 25048 47.1 37.8 5881628 1398264 ? Rl feb10 23852:21 /usr/lib64/kde4/libexec/polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1
aldebaran:~ #
What’s that?
regards