Bug 123176

Summary:	[RFE] Need new perl rpm release that fixes threaded memory leak
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3	Reporter:	Marc Wiartrowski <wia>
Component:	perl	Assignee:	Jason Vas Dias <jvdias>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	3.0	CC:	poelstra
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Fixed In Version:	RHSA-2005-881	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Bug Blocks:	154449, 168424

Description Marc Wiartrowski 2004-05-13 16:34:10 UTC

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Description of problem:
Would like a new perl rpm that addresses the shared.xs memory leak
when using threads.  I believe it was fixed atleast by version 5.8.2

Don't want to have to compile my own version of perl for the Enterprise
version.

-thanks

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
perl-5.8.0-88.4

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
NA

Additional info:

Comment 1 Suzanne Hillman 2005-04-11 20:13:15 UTC

Internal RFE bug #154449 entered; will be considered for future releases.

Comment 2 Jason Vas Dias 2005-11-10 00:00:53 UTC

Sorry for the delay in processing this bug .

By "shared.xs memory leak" are you referring to this perl bug :
   #24061: shared array memory leak in 5.8.1
   ( http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=24061 )
?

If so, the patch which fixes it ( #21530 ) has now been applied to the 
next RHEL-3 perl-5.8.0-90.2 version.

This bug should probably have been treated as a normal bug report rather than
an enhancement request - it is a bug that perl-5.8.0's threads implementation
leaks memory, and a request to fix this is not an enhancement request.

Comment 3 Marc Wiartrowski 2005-11-14 13:58:12 UTC

Yes, this looks like our problem.  -thanks

Comment 7 Red Hat Bugzilla 2005-12-20 14:56:41 UTC

An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-881.html