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[Bug 1312051] Re: Upstart init process consuming all ram

 

Are there any new solutions?
I have the same problem with Ubuntu 14.04.
Every 10s the process "init --user" grows 0.1% of total storage.
So after one day the system ran out of memory and cracks up

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Title:
  Upstart init process consuming all ram

Status in “upstart” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  In Ubuntu 14.04 amd64  Upstart init process keeps growing in ram. 
  It's about 0.1 MiB every 10s.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: upstart 1.12.1-0ubuntu4
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-24.46-generic 3.13.9
  Uname: Linux 3.13.0-24-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Thu Apr 24 10:33:58 2014
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2011-09-05 (961 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Beta amd64 (20110901)
  ProcKernelCmdline: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-24-generic root=/dev/mapper/hostname-root ro quiet splash zswap.enabled=1 crashkernel=384M-:128M crashkernel=384M-:128M crashkernel=384M-:128M crashkernel=384M-:128M
  SourcePackage: upstart
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-02-07 (75 days ago)
  UpstartBugCategory: System
  UpstartRunningSessionVersion: init (upstart 1.12.1)
  UpstartRunningSystemVersion: init (upstart 1.12.1)
  modified.conffile..etc.NetworkManager.NetworkManager.conf: [modified]
  modified.conffile..etc.at.deny: [inaccessible: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/etc/at.deny']
  modified.conffile..etc.dconf.db.gdm: [modified]
  modified.conffile..etc.default.cups: [modified]
  modified.conffile..etc.default.whoopsie: [modified]
  modified.conffile..etc.iscsi.iscsid.conf: [modified]
  mtime.conffile..etc.NetworkManager.NetworkManager.conf: 2013-12-20T12:14:24.844783
  mtime.conffile..etc.dconf.db.gdm: 2014-02-21T11:46:26.072553
  mtime.conffile..etc.default.cups: 2014-03-11T16:01:34.805892
  mtime.conffile..etc.default.whoopsie: 2013-10-23T11:36:50.678661
  mtime.conffile..etc.iscsi.iscsid.conf: 2013-07-10T17:05:34.637955

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