I haven't experienced this issue on recent 14.09 images. However, now I have a proces called "init" (not the one with PID 1) that takes 200 megs of RAM and constantly about 15% of CPU:
top - 22:10:19 up 2 days, 11:13, 2 users, load average: 2,88, 3,48, 3,44 Tasks: 304 total, 3 running, 291 sleeping, 10 stopped, 0 zombie %Cpu(s): 37,1 us, 62,4 sy, 0,0 ni, 0,0 id, 0,0 wa, 0,0 hi, 0,5 si, 0,0 st KiB Mem: 1878572 total, 1811868 used, 66704 free, 143000 buffers KiB Swap: 32764 total, 1696 used, 31068 free. 477768 cached Mem PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 1453 phablet 20 0 215936 210984 1216 R 14,5 11,2 282:48.96 init 766 message+ 20 0 18100 15588 756 S 4,2 0,8 139:55.43 dbus-daemon 2765 phablet 20 0 552016 158796 59224 R 3,9 8,5 87:28.12 unity8 1139 root 0 -20 7572 552 400 S 2,3 0,0 67:09.50 mpdecision 1574 phablet 20 0 5344 2428 748 S 2,3 0,1 69:27.50 dbus-daemon 988 root 20 0 9744 1260 796 S 1,9 0,1 47:23.86 systemd-udevd 1 root 20 0 4412 2884 1112 S 1,3 0,2 31:58.40 init 1691 phablet 20 0 5608 448 260 S 1,3 0,0 35:44.75 upstart-dbus-br 26167 phablet 20 0 6492 1396 860 R 1,3 0,1 0:00.42 top This time, I have strace installed and recorded a few seconds of its output. Do you think this is related, or should I open a new bug for this? ** Attachment added: "strace output of process "init", PID 1453" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/upstart/+bug/1281061/+attachment/4266339/+files/init.strace.txt.gz -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to upstart in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1281061 Title: initctl eating cpu on mako #181 Status in “upstart” package in Ubuntu: Expired Bug description: On Ubuntu image #181 on mako my phone is hot. I checked top and found initctl eating 96% of the cpu.. This may be related to bug 1281057 as my phone refuses to lock. Unfortunately I couldn't get the bug report done on the phone because the battery died (unsurprisingly) mid way through reporting it. Managed to get this output from top though. top - 10:34:05 up 1 day, 20:23, 1 user, load average: 4.19, 4.14, 3.82 Tasks: 244 total, 2 running, 242 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie %Cpu(s): 49.1 us, 5.4 sy, 0.0 ni, 45.1 id, 0.4 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.0 si, 0.0 st KiB Mem: 1916236 total, 1855748 used, 60488 free, 18420 buffers KiB Swap: 524284 total, 115420 used, 408864 free. 196160 cached Mem PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 1981 phablet 20 0 679256 665780 1160 S 0.3 34.7 33:23.31 init 586 message+ 20 0 280608 276924 712 S 0.0 14.5 26:18.81 dbus-daemon 1 root 20 0 210636 206636 1056 S 0.0 10.8 12:16.86 init 2211 phablet 20 0 553308 127668 77840 S 85.7 6.7 49:53.31 unity8 598 root 20 0 88792 86892 584 R 96.1 4.5 433:39.94 initctl 2318 phablet 20 0 296952 40432 33060 S 0.0 2.1 0:26.02 maliit-ser+ 1903 root 20 0 241404 27880 20500 S 13.0 1.5 10:27.68 unity-syst+ 9631 phablet 20 0 216224 19924 14828 S 0.0 1.0 0:01.78 telephony-+ 2350 phablet 20 0 55260 19540 2776 S 0.0 1.0 1:28.08 indicator-+ 1052 root 20 0 52248 19244 2252 S 0.0 1.0 22:39.85 upowerd 2080 phablet 20 0 47300 12604 3396 S 0.0 0.7 1:43.27 mission-co+ 9368 phablet 20 0 80832 11872 9988 S 0.0 0.6 0:00.61 telephony-+ 1062 root 20 0 42916 11548 2544 S 0.0 0.6 84:53.39 polkitd 2205 phablet 20 0 96980 11464 9280 S 0.0 0.6 0:05.66 hud-service 9360 phablet 20 0 52164 9592 8120 S 0.0 0.5 0:00.21 telephony-+ 2234 phablet 20 0 134336 8716 5288 S 0.0 0.5 0:16.43 address-bo+ 2093 phablet 9 -11 203588 7304 4964 S 0.0 0.4 5:37.30 pulseaudio To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/upstart/+bug/1281061/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp