sabnzbd and consolekit using lots of virtual memory

[naviathan]

I'm running xenserver with an ubuntu 14.04 guest that's doing my downloading and media management. I noticed that on this VM the memory usage was reading really high. Upon closer inspection I see that sabnzbdplus and console-kit-dae are the top hogs. Two questions:
1. Why does sabnzbdplus depend on consolekit?
2. Why would they both be using gigs of virtual memory?

[sander]

1. Why does sabnzbdplus depend on consolekit?

What makes you think that?

2. Why would they both be using gigs of virtual memory?

Because ... they can. Read http://www.linuxatemyram.com/

On my 0.5 GB RAM VM:

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$ top -bn1 | grep -e VIRT -e sabnzbd -e console
  PID USER      PR  NI    VIRT    RES    SHR S %CPU %MEM     TIME+ COMMAND
 2527 sander    20   0  299028   9320   2260 S  0.0  1.8   3:12.81 sabnzbdplus
 2966 root      20   0   29856   1332   1332 S  0.0  0.3   0:00.22 console-kit-dae

On my 4GB RAM laptop:

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$ top -bn1 | grep -e VIRT -e sabnzbd -e console
  PID USER      PR  NI    VIRT    RES    SHR S  %CPU %MEM     TIME+ COMMAND
 1888 root      20   0 2100448   3248   3248 S   0,0  0,1   0:00.38 console-kit-dae
 4296 sander    20   0 2508220  44276   6072 S   0,0  1,2   9:21.51 sabnzbdplus

So the VIRTUAL memory goes up if there is more RAM. Easy. And: no worries. Focus on RES and %MEM

[naviathan]

So the amount of virtual memory doesn't matter? My host system and monitoring tools are all reporting this VM as using 83%+ of it's memory sitting at idle doing nothing. Just annoying I guess.
As for the consolekit requirement, if I do an apt-cache rdepends consolekit it shows sabnzbdplus as requiring it. I'm trying to keep my VM's as slim as possible and consolekit seems to bring some gui garbage with it.

[sander]

As for the consolekit requirement, if I do an apt-cache rdepends consolekit it shows sabnzbdplus as requiring it. I'm trying to keep my VM's as slim as possible and consolekit seems to bring some gui garbage with it.

http://packages.ubuntu.com/wily/sabnzbdplus says sabnzbdplus "recommends" consolekit.
Does your "apt-cache rdepends consolekit" only mentions sabnzbdplus? On my VM I get:

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$ apt-cache rdepends consolekit
consolekit
Reverse Depends:
  sabnzbdplus
  lxsession-logout
  sabnzbdplus
  user-manager
  ulatencyd
  tcosmonitor-common
  sugar-session-0.98
  sugar-session-0.96
  sucrose-0.98
  sucrose-0.96
  slim
  lxsession-logout
  kshutdown
  libpolkit-qt-1-1

I wouldn't dare to remove it, certainly not on remote VM.
with 1.3MB real RAM usage by consolekit, I wouldn't bother.