Public bug reported: After ~3 days uptime the upstart process on my system begins to exhibit excessive CPU/RAM usage and affects the system responsiveness to the point I have to restart the system due to slow window redraw and generally slow task switching in the UI:
08:25:31 up 3 days, 23:01, 7 users, load average: 2.13, 1.75, 1.55 3471 moon127 20 0 6299724 4.406g 1988 D 92.4 57.3 104:34.14 upstart ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10 Package: upstart 1.13.2-0ubuntu2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-24.32-generic 3.16.4 Uname: Linux 3.16.0-24-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: ksplice_d2o5u73c_vmlinux_new ksplice_d2o5u73c ksplice_tgqhe5us_vmlinux_new ksplice_tgqhe5us ksplice_yxre0vn1_vmlinux_new ksplice_yxre0vn1 ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu8 Architecture: amd64 Date: Tue Nov 25 08:19:54 2014 InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-12-21 (703 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.5) ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_GB:en TERM=xterm PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: upstart UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to utopic on 2014-10-11 (44 days ago) UpstartBugCategory: Session UpstartRunningSessionCount: 2 UpstartRunningSystemVersion: init (upstart 1.13.2) mtime.conffile..etc.X11.Xsession.d.99upstart: 2014-09-30T09:21:00 mtime.conffile..etc.cron.daily.upstart: 2014-09-30T09:26:15 mtime.conffile..etc.upstart.xsessions: 2014-09-30T09:21:00 ** Affects: upstart (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug utopic -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1396017 Title: Upstart excessive cpu and memory consumption To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/upstart/+bug/1396017/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs