Comment 8 for bug 1198180

The init process is certainly leaking memory. This can be observed by starting a lot of Docker containers which exit right away. I'm able to get upstart's init process to 50-100 MB of memory usage by running 5000-20000 Docker containers which only print something and then exit.

I've looked at the code and it seems like there may be some leaks. The upstart tests are are also leaking memory. Some of that memory is leaked in the tests themselves (allocated and never freed) and some others seem to be leaking in libnih itself.

Ubuntu 14.04 doesn't seem to have this problem at all.