[Bug 1197426] [NEW] starpar-upstart-inject causes upstart to consume a lot of cpu

[James Hunt]

Public bug reported:

My machine was responding sluggishly. Top showed PID 1 consuming almost
70% CPU. The culprit seems to be the startpar-bridge job which had 2
running instances:

$ sudo initctl list|grep startpar                                                                                                                                    
startpar-bridge (get_started--started) start/running, process 9024
startpar-bridge (get_started--stopped) start/running, process 9035

The fix was to:

1) Stop the job from restarting:

    echo manual | sudo tee /etc/init/startpar-bridge.override

2) Stop the 2 running instances.

CPU usage then returned to normal levels.

strace confirmed that upstart was constantly processing startpar-bridge
requests.

** Affects: sysvinit (Ubuntu)
     Importance: High
         Status: New

** Changed in: sysvinit (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => High

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Title:
  starpar-upstart-inject causes upstart to consume a lot of cpu

Status in “sysvinit” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  My machine was responding sluggishly. Top showed PID 1 consuming
  almost 70% CPU. The culprit seems to be the startpar-bridge job which
  had 2 running instances:

  $ sudo initctl list|grep startpar                                                                                                                                    
  startpar-bridge (get_started--started) start/running, process 9024
  startpar-bridge (get_started--stopped) start/running, process 9035

  The fix was to:

  1) Stop the job from restarting:

      echo manual | sudo tee /etc/init/startpar-bridge.override

  2) Stop the 2 running instances.

  CPU usage then returned to normal levels.

  strace confirmed that upstart was constantly processing startpar-
  bridge requests.

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