Bug#945140: linux-image-5.3.0-2-amd64: system occasionally hangs for several minutes
On 2019-11-20 19:06:25 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2019-11-20 12:52:09 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > Package: src:linux
> > Version: 5.3.9-2
> > Severity: important
> >
> > Since yesterday, the system occasionally hangs for several minutes.
> > When this happens, I can observe in the journalctl output:
> >
> > Nov 19 02:28:43 zira rtkit-daemon[752]: The canary thread is apparently starving. Taking action.
> [...]
>
> Note sure whether this is a bug related to rtkit-daemon. I've found
> the possible culprit (which also explains that I had no problems
> before): xpdf takes several GB, even though the PDF file is rather
> simple (26 slides, no images...). The consequence is that the machine
> is swapping. I suspect a memory leak, possibly when the PDF file is
> reloaded (I've been writing slides, thus with many reloads...).
This was the probable cause (which I reported as bug 945188,
fixed in 2021).
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