Comment 21 for bug 1429887

I'm beginning to doubt that this is particularly associated with system load (there was speculation that this is related to the scenario of wifi APs causing NetworkManager and dbus-daemon to go crazy, slowing down the system, which is a separate bug).

I've used the following script in /etc/init/load.conf to simulate heavy system load:

description "load"
manual
script
 while true; do true; done &
 while true; do true; done &
 while true; do true; done &
 while true; do true; done &
 while true; do true; done &
 exec cpulimit -l 1 -c 1 -p `ps ax | grep dbus-daemon | head -n 1 | awk '{print $1;}'`
end script

And it definitely slows things down. But I couldn't reproduce this specific bug with that running. I actually haven't seen it at all on my test or daily driver devices since OTA7. I don't know if that means it is fixed, harder to reproduce, or I've just been lucky.

Ari, you mention seeing this a lot. Are you on OTA7?