Why does the memory usage (RSS in 'ps aux') for polkitd and gnome-shell always increasing in RHEL7.2?

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Issue

  • Memory usage (RSS in 'ps aux') for polkitd and gnome-shell always increasing on RHEL7.2 in clustered environment. Standalone systems are not affected by this problem.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2
  • polkit-0.112-5.el7.x86_64.rpm
  • gnome-shell-3.14.4-37.el7.x86_64.rpm

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