The accounts-daemon consumes high CPU usage due to the large wtmp file.
Issue
Accounts-daemonconsumes highCPU. This is a system with very frequentSSHlogins.
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PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
1501 root 20 0 1763796 1.2g 8544 R 100.0 2.3 15545:18 accounts-daemon
1175 dbus 20 0 85020 7704 5540 S 6.2 0.0 1012:02 dbus-daemon
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
- accountsservice
- wtmp
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