When a new connection occurs, NetworkManager mmaps 64Mb hunk which is equivalent to the 32.28Kb per second rate over a 1800 second run of heath-check

[Para Siva]

This is noticed during health-check's tests on trusty (mostly i386 but also on amd64) ISO's.

The failed builds in https://jenkins.qa.ubuntu.com/view/Trusty/view/Smoke%20Testing/job/trusty-desktop-i386-smoke-health-check/ are all due to this issue.

The following is excerpts from cking's debugging of the failure:

"NetworkManager does not show this issue when no connections are made old
connections are re-established. Only new connections since reboot seem
to trigger this.

The large mmap is a bit ridiculous, it's either the heap (via
malloc/free) or glib memory allocator being a bit generous in the way it
requests more memory for the heap or network manager itself doing a
large mmap request (which I think is very unlikely).

The good news is that the memory is mapped but not all used, so there is
little actual physical demand for these mapped in pages. Even so, I
think it may be worth somebody with NetworkManager experience to dig in
deeper to see why and where this allocation is occurring as a medium/low
bug.

To reproduce this issue:

1. Clean boot
2. Wait until existing network connections are established (e.g. wifi)
3. Run health-check on Network Manager
4. Make a new connection, e.g. plug in ethernet connection for an
auto-ethernet connection to be established.
5. Stop health-check, observe that a huge allocation has occurred."

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: network-manager 0.9.8.8-0ubuntu7.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.19.0-28.30~14.04.1-generic 3.19.8-ckt5
Uname: Linux 3.19.0-28-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.13
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Sep 21 13:24:45 2015
IfupdownConfig:
 # interfaces(5) file used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8)
 auto lo
 iface lo inet loopback
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-09-08 (13 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Beta i386 (20150908)
IpRoute:
 default via 192.168.122.1 dev eth0 proto static
 192.168.122.0/24 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.122.148 metric 1
IwConfig:
 lo no wireless extensions.

 eth0 no wireless extensions.
NetworkManager.state:
 [main]
 NetworkingEnabled=true
 WirelessEnabled=true
 WWANEnabled=true
 WimaxEnabled=true
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=screen
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
RfKill:

SourcePackage: network-manager
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
nmcli-con:
 NAME UUID TYPE TIMESTAMP TIMESTAMP-REAL AUTOCONNECT READONLY DBUS-PATH
 Wired connection 1 85b3134d-a657-40be-8229-248bcd0ce79c 802-3-ethernet 1442841756 Mon 21 Sep 2015 01:22:36 PM UTC yes no /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Settings/0
nmcli-dev:
 DEVICE TYPE STATE DBUS-PATH
 eth0 802-3-ethernet connected /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/0
nmcli-nm:
 RUNNING VERSION STATE NET-ENABLED WIFI-HARDWARE WIFI WWAN-HARDWARE WWAN
 running 0.9.8.8 connected enabled enabled enabled enabled disabled

[Para Siva (psivaa)]

This is occurring on both i386 and amd64 VM's. The description has been updated to this effect.