init consuming lots of RAM after a while of running

[Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄]

Start phone - trusty image 5.
Start a bunch of apps, I started 7 on nexus 4
Wait some while
Observe init process consuming quite a bit of memory and the device being slow.

top - 21:15:36 up 12:38, 1 user, load average: 1.29, 1.32, 2.62
Tasks: 222 total, 1 running, 214 sleeping, 7 stopped, 0 zombie
%Cpu(s): 1.3 us, 1.1 sy, 0.0 ni, 97.6 id, 0.0 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.0 si, 0.0 st
KiB Mem: 1916236 total, 1817260 used, 98976 free, 64376 buffers
KiB Swap: 524284 total, 9060 used, 515224 free, 290012 cached

  PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
 1737 phablet 20 0 698600 693820 1104 S 1.0 36.2 6:30.91 init
 1858 phablet 20 0 641756 269864 180548 S 0.3 14.1 7:19.81 unity8
 6574 phablet 20 0 290144 85944 73656 T 0.0 4.5 0:01.74 qmlscene
 6674 phablet 20 0 202336 53784 38352 T 0.0 2.8 0:02.27 qmlscene
 6333 phablet 20 0 248440 50976 36252 T 0.0 2.7 0:02.53 qmlscene
 6507 phablet 20 0 272560 49056 36380 T 0.0 2.6 0:01.71 qmlscene
 6407 phablet 20 0 242568 48904 37348 T 0.0 2.6 0:01.76 getmewheels2
14379 phablet 20 0 238844 48844 37196 T 0.0 2.5 0:02.91 qmlscene
 6586 phablet 30 10 201216 46880 29516 S 0.0 2.4 0:39.32 QtWebProcess
 1862 phablet 20 0 98616 44360 4156 S 0.0 2.3 0:09.42 hud-service
 6236 phablet 20 0 195084 43236 33852 T 0.0 2.3 0:01.07 ubuntu-auth+
 1922 phablet 20 0 184396 39388 22732 S 0.0 2.1 0:10.66 maliit-serv+
 2243 phablet 20 0 110968 29888 5992 S 0.0 1.6 0:04.26 evolution-c+
 2057 phablet 20 0 58076 24960 3840 S 0.0 1.3 1:06.04 indicator-n+
 1792 phablet 20 0 42720 18580 4668 S 0.0 1.0 0:41.84 mission-con+
 1014 root 20 0 47944 16856 2748 S 0.0 0.9 134:18.62 polkitd
 1757 phablet 20 0 95372 13368 9300 S 0.0 0.7 0:05.54 mediascanne+

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: upstart 1.10-0ubuntu8
Uname: Linux 3.4.0-3-mako armv7l
ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2
Architecture: armhf
Date: Fri Nov 1 21:12:24 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-10-24 (8 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu Trusty Tahr (development branch) - armhf (20131024)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=linux
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: upstart
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UpstartBugCategory: Session
UpstartRunningSessionCount: 1
UpstartRunningSessionVersion: init (upstart 1.10)
UpstartRunningSystemVersion: init (upstart 1.10)
upstart.tty1.override: manual
upstart.tty2.override: manual
upstart.tty3.override: manual
upstart.tty4.override: manual
upstart.tty5.override: manual
upstart.tty6.override: manual

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.