Bug 1335241

Summary: ksh in 6.7 has a memory leak which causes scripts to continually slow down
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: mdjohnson
Component: kshAssignee: Siteshwar Vashisht <svashisht>
Status: CLOSED INSUFFICIENT_DATA QA Contact: BaseOS QE - Apps <qe-baseos-apps>
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Version: 6.7CC: kdudka
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OS: Linux   
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Description mdjohnson 2016-05-11 16:12:50 UTC 
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ksh in 6.7 has a memory leak which causes scripts to continually slow down .
But ksh in 6.6 does NOT have this problem. 
So our temporary fix was to copy the 6.6 ksh to our 6.7 machine.
This was in a script with a "for" loop inside a "while" loop.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Create a script with a "for" loop nested in a "while" loop.
2.Run the script for an hour.
3.The time per each iteration of the script should increase by < 1 minute per iteration.
Actual Results:  
The time per iteration continually increased.

Expected Results:  
The time per iteration should stay the same, roughly within 30 seconds.