[Bug 1198180] Re: possible leak in upstart 1.5

[James Hunt]

Approximately how many running jobs do you have after you've created 40k
containers? If you stop all those network interfaces, is the memory
reclaimed?

Please provide further details so we can investigate more fully.

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Title:
  possible leak in upstart 1.5

Status in “upstart” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Description:    Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS
  Release:        12.04
  Package:    1.5-0ubuntu7.2
  Kernel:      Linux XXX 3.8.0-23-generic #34~precise1-Ubuntu SMP Wed May 29 21:12:31 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

  We're starting lxc containers on demand, so there's lots and lots of
  network interfaces going up and down. Udev emits signal, that goes to
  upstart-udev-bridge, and next to the upstart itself. After about 40K
  containers created/destroyed, upstart takes about 250MB or RAM, and it
  grows with every event received/send. Not only RAM is beeing used, but
  also init spends more time for every new event on the socket.

  What happens:
  init uses more RAM and more CPU during lifetime, when lots of network interfaces are beeing created/destroyed

  What is expected:
  init work should not change depending on number of events served

  technical detail:
  # pmap -x 1
  00007f446f865000       0  237036  237036 rw---    [ anon ]
  00007fffc694d000       0      24      24 rw---    [ stack ]
  00007fffc69fe000       0       4       0 r-x--    [ anon ]
  ffffffffff600000       0       0       0 r-x--    [ anon ]

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