This just happened to me right after login. The process started to eat all of my memory which caused intensive swapping and an unresponsive system. It took me minutes just to get a terminal to kill this process.
Besides the issue with the high memory (and cpu) consumption there is an other issue here: The process in question is part of (?) a backup solution, which is not configured by default. I believe this application shouldn't be installed, or at least it shouldn't run on login by default unless the user actually needs it. Even without the bug that causes high memory usage it's still something that slows down startup without actually doing something useful. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to deja-dup in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1302416 Title: deja-dup monitor was taking 6GB of memory Status in “deja-dup” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Booted fresh, computer started to be slow and after a while i realized deja-dup monitor was taking 6GB of memory. Haven't tried rebooted again. Will do so in a moment. Sorry can't provide more info :/ ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 Package: deja-dup 30.0-0ubuntu4 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-22.44-generic 3.13.8 Uname: Linux 3.13.0-22-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.14-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: Unity Date: Fri Apr 4 09:40:07 2014 InstallationDate: Installed on 2011-11-21 (864 days ago) InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012) ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=ca_ES TERM=xterm PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=ca_ES.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: deja-dup UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2012-02-27 (766 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/deja-dup/+bug/1302416/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
