Ubuntu
indicator-bluetooth package

gradual/exponential increase in memory use of indicator-bluetooth

Bug #1465664 reported by Alper
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indicator-bluetooth (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

indicator-bluetooth (0.0.6+14.10.20141006-0ubuntu1) starts automatically after boot, and its memory use increases continuously, gradually and exponentially, to the point that it reaches the system limit. Then it causes overheating and crashes the system requiring a reboot only possible forcefully by on/off switch of the computer. When I kill the process from system monitor to avoid this happening, it starts from zero again (automatically) and restart the gradual increase of memory use. Obviously there's a loop, but I couldn't figure out or find the reason or how to solve this. I can not remove indicator-bluetooth permanently due to package dependencies.

This started happening after I upgraded from 14.10 to 15.04.

My computer is Toshiba Portege Z930 with 8 GB memory (which becomes used up in app. 30 minutes), Intel® Core™ i7-3687U CPU and Intel® Ivybridge Mobile graphics card.

I'm not an advanced user, so please excuse me if I have surpassed any essential step before filing here.

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Alper (alper-akyuz)
description: updated
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Alper (alper-akyuz) wrote :

A solution to prevent indicator-bluetooth to startup has been to comment out the line "start on indicator-services-start" in /usr/share/upstart/sessions/indicator-bluetooth.conf file, but the bug is still there of course.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in indicator-bluetooth (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Patrick Brueckner (madmuffin) wrote :

This bug affects me too (Toshiba Portege Z30-A-19L on 15.04 with bluetooth-indicator 0.0.6+14.10.20141006-0ubuntu1 ) and another user using a Toshiba Notebook that I stumbled upon while searching for a solution (http://askubuntu.com/questions/628454/indicator-bluetooth-service-high-cpu-and-memory-usage)

I have a Intel Corporation Wireless 3160 with integrated Bluetooth.

In my dmesg log I get a lot of

[ 715.433253] toshiba_bluetooth: Re-enabling Toshiba Bluetooth
[ 715.920854] Bluetooth: hci0: read Intel version: 370710010002030d00
[ 715.920896] Bluetooth: hci0: Intel Bluetooth firmware file: intel/ibt-hw-37.7.10-fw-1.0.2.3.d.bseq
[ 716.122078] Bluetooth: hci0: Intel Bluetooth firmware patch completed and activated

removeing the toshiba_bluetooth kernel (kernel version 3.19.0-28-generic) module seems to alleviate the problem

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Emmanuel Duviviers (emmanuelduviviers49) wrote :

I have the same problem : the process memory usage grow until it takes all the available memory.
I disabled bluetooth in the Unity menu and the process still runs and after some hours uses enough memory to prevent me from working with the computer if i do not kill it before.
I don't know if it is linked but when opening "bluetooth parameters" and switching bluetooth disabled it does not stay disabled!
My configuration : Ubuntu 15.04 on a toshiba z10t with 4GB RAM.

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