Upstart init process consuming all ram

It's a regression as it did't happen in Ubuntu 13.10 om the same machine.

Can you confirm that you are talking about PID 1? How are you checking the amount of memory init is using?

Also, do you have a /var/log/upstart/ directory on your system?

Sorry James, I checked and PID is not(!) 1. So it is a "init --user". I am
checking now with System Monitor, befeore I checked with top command and I
messed.

2014-04-24 11:16 GMT+02:00 James Hunt <email address hidden>:

> Can you confirm that you are talking about PID 1? How are you checking
> the amount of memory init is using?
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> Also, do you have a /var/log/upstart/ directory on your system?
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Hi Leonardo - no problem. Can you check to ensure you have a ~/.cache/upstart/ directory (or "$XDG_CACHE_HOME/upstart/" if you have manually set XDG_CACHE_HOME). Also, is the session init process consuming a lot of CPU ("top -b -n1")?

Thanks James.

Init is not using a lot of cpu (top -b -n1) :
2689 leo 20 0 351944 244552 2252 S 0,0 6,2 1:16.82 init

I confirm that there is a ~/.cache/upstart/ directory.

2014-04-24 12:53 GMT+02:00 James Hunt <email address hidden>:

> Hi Leonardo - no problem. Can you check to ensure you have a
> ~/.cache/upstart/ directory (or "$XDG_CACHE_HOME/upstart/" if you have
> manually set XDG_CACHE_HOME). Also, is the session init process
> consuming a lot of CPU ("top -b -n1")?
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Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

This has worked for me:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/upstart/+bug/1302955

SOLVED: I confirm Kostas solution. 'apt-get purge unity-greeter-session-broadcast' fixed it.

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

I confirm this, after 16 days of uptime on ubuntu 14.10 desktop, the process upstart use 1,8 GB of memory.

lop@work:~$ ps aux | grep "upstart --user"
lop 7656 0.1 22.9 2218984 1851736 ? Ss apr07 9:14 upstart --user

Any workaround? i don't have any unity-greeter-session-broadcast installed

Regards

10G memory in total, of wich 6.4G RAM and 3+G swap...
A bit too much. Ubuntu 15.10

I have been getting this bug repeatedly on 16.04 LTS. After about say 2 hours of uptime everything is extremely slow and unresponsive, even just editing text files. I have to log into a different console with ctrl+alt+f1 to do anything. According to top, upstart is using about 100% CPU and around 40% memory. It's intermittent, only happens about every 4-5 reboots or so, but boy is it annoying. Any suggestions? Any logs I can post to help diagnose?