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[Trent Lloyd <1799265@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

As noted above, this is almost certainly caused by this known issue that landed in Kinetic+:
https://bugs-devel.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=993051

Attaching Jammy SRU debdiff for it.

Testing PPA:
https://launchpad.net/~lathiat/+archive/ubuntu/avahi-lp1799265

** Bug watch added: bugs-devel.debian.org/ #993051
   https://bugs-devel.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=993051

** Patch added: "avahi-lp1799265-jammy.debdiff"
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/avahi/+bug/1799265/+attachment/5919602/+files/avahi-lp1799265-jammy.debdiff

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Title:
  avahi-daemon high cpu, unusable networking

Status in Avahi:
  New
Status in avahi package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in avahi source package in Jammy:
  Confirmed
Status in avahi source package in Noble:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Currently running Kubuntu 18.10, Dell XPS 13 9350

  Since updating from Kubuntu 18.04 to 18.10, the avahi-daemon has been
  consistently hampering network performance and using CPU for long
  periods of time.

  When booting machine from off state, avahi-daemon uses an entire CPU
  at max load for approx 10 minutes. During this time, internet
  connectivity via wifi is essentially unusable. The wifi connection is
  good, but it seems that http transactions are cutoff mid-way so no
  webpage is able to load.

  When waking from sleep, the avahi-daemon causes similar symptoms, but
  with less than 1 full cpu usage, and with somewhat less degraded
  network performance, but still quite unusable.

  I have never had issues with avahi prior to the 18.10 upgrade, so I am
  fairly confident the issue is rooted in that change.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.10
  Package: avahi-daemon 0.7-4ubuntu2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.18.0-10.11-generic 4.18.12
  Uname: Linux 4.18.0-10-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu13
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: KDE
  Date: Mon Oct 22 10:00:34 2018
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-07-24 (455 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.04 "Zesty Zapus" - Release amd64 (20170412)
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   LD_PRELOAD=<set>
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: avahi
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to cosmic on 2018-10-20 (2 days ago)

  [ Impact ]

   * avahi-daemon consumes a large amount of CPU over time, particularly
  on laptop/desktop use cases

   * This issue was fixed long ago fixed upstream, in Debian and in
  Kinetic+ but not previously backported to Jammy.

  [ Test Plan ]

   * It is not easy to reproduce the issue on demand, it tends to happen
  at random, only on busy networks possibly after many days or more of
  uptime. I don't currently have a way to easily reproduce the issue for
  SRU verification.

   * Upstream bug/diagnosis: https://bugs-devel.debian.org/cgi-
  bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=993051

  [ Where problems could occur ]

   * This patch is a single line change for a missing cleanup, that has
  shipped in Kinetic+ for several years

   * The version shipping in those releases is substantially similar to
  the current release (no new upstream release)

   * However: avahi-daemon is a default installed package on Desktops,
  so there is a high potential impact

  [ Other Info ]

   * None

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