Mint18.1- crash with high CPU and RAM consumption

[karentow]

Mint 18.1 64-bit fresh install. Booting machine into MDM login screen.
About 40% of the time, after inputing password, the screen goes black with just mouse pointer visible.
When I ssh into the machine I can see many "cinnamon --replace" processes consuming 100% CPU and RAM usage increasing about 200MB/s

After a few minutes, when all available RAM and swap get used up, Cinnamon crashes and loads GUI with notification it crashed, is running in fallback mode and ask me if I want to restart it.
RAM usage drops but CPU usage stays high.

It ignores request to restart.
After killing all user's processes with killall the next logging attempt usually (not always) is fine.

System: Host: nuc Kernel: 4.8.0-42-generic x86_64 (64 bit) Console: tty 0 Distro: Linux Mint 18.1 Serena
Machine: Mobo: Intel model: NUC7i3BNB v: J22859-303
Bios: Intel v: BNKBL357.86A.0042.2017.0303.1854 date: 03/03/2017
CPU: Dual core Intel Core i3-7100U (-HT-MCP-) cache: 3072 KB
clock speeds: max: 2400 MHz 1: 700 MHz 2: 666 MHz 3: 600 MHz 4: 2400 MHz
Graphics: Card: Intel Device 5916
Display Server: X.org 1.18.4 drivers: intel (unloaded: fbdev,vesa)
tty size: 144x31 Advanced Data: N/A out of X
Audio: Card Intel Device 9d71 driver: snd_hda_intel Sound: ALSA v: k4.8.0-42-generic
Network: Card-1: Intel Ethernet Connection (4) I219-V driver: e1000e
IF: eno1 state: down mac: f4:4d:30:6b:6d:52
Card-2: Intel Device 24fd driver: iwlwifi
IF: wlp58s0 state: up speed: N/A duplex: N/A mac: f8:63:3f:0f:da:f7
Drives: HDD Total Size: NA (-) ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 model: N/A size: 512.1GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 19G used: 5.8G (33%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3
ID-2: /boot size: 465M used: 85M (20%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
ID-3: /home size: 422G used: 177M (1%) fs: zfs dev: N/A
ID-4: swap-1 size: 20.48GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/nvme0n1p4
RAID: No RAID devices: /proc/mdstat, md_mod kernel module present
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 55.5C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info: Processes: 602 Uptime: 2 min Memory: 632.9/15936.5MB Init: systemd runlevel: 5
Client: Shell (bash) inxi: 2.2.35

[OK2AMA]

Hi, I have same problem. ( Ubuntu 16.04, new instalation, and I install cinnamon - it did't working - also high consumption RAM/SWAP and CPU usage ). I installed also LXDE and It working ok. (CPU/GPU i3-3110, old version cinnamon working OK - before 18.x )

[saranvdev]

Hi, same here.
Linux Mint 18.1, installed few months ago.
Every time after few hours from startup, process "cinnamon --replace" starts to eat more than 90% of ram (15GB). Cinnamon freezes quickly and the only way left is restart. If I try to kill proccess, cinnamon crashes. I'm using only cinnamon.

[clefebvre]

We believe this issue is fixed. Please test against the latest Cinnamon version (3.6). If the issue happens again, create a new issue.