Bug 232411

Summary: yum-updatesd has a memory leak
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Jan Gruenwald <grunwald>
Component: yumAssignee: Jeremy Katz <katzj>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact:
Severity: high Docs Contact:
Priority: medium    
Version: 6   
Target Milestone: ---   
Target Release: ---   
Hardware: noarch   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version: Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Story Points: ---
Clone Of: Environment:
Last Closed: 2007-03-19 22:04:45 UTC Type: ---
Regression: --- Mount Type: ---
Documentation: --- CRM:
Verified Versions: Category: ---
oVirt Team: --- RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team: --- Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:

Description Jan Gruenwald 2007-03-15 11:18:43 UTC
From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.10) Gecko/20070223 Fedora/1.5.0.10-1.fc5 Firefox/1.5.0.10 pango-text

Description of problem:
If you watch the VmRSS field in /proc/<Pid of yum-updatesd>/status you will see that it grows over the time.



Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
yum-updatesd-3.0.3-1.fc6

How reproducible:
Always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start yum-updatesd 
2. Watch VmRSS in /proc/<Pid of yum-updatesd>/status
3. 

Actual Results:
The ResidentSetSize grows

Expected Results:
The ResidentSetSize should be constant !?

Additional info:
From one of my maschines:

[root@p15125001 ~]# rpm -q fedora-release
fedora-release-6-4
[root@p15125001 ~]$ free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:        246700     242760       3940          0       2104      10800
-/+ buffers/cache:     229856      16844
Swap:       557048     557048          0
[root@p15125001 ~]# /etc/init.d/yum-updatesd restart
Stopping yum-updatesd:                                     [  OK  ]
Starting yum-updatesd:                                     [  OK  ]
[root@p15125001 ~]# free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:        246700     162764      83936          0       4108      35284
-/+ buffers/cache:     123372     123328
Swap:       557048      23924     533124


After that I did a 5min check on /proc/<Pid of yum-updatesd>/status on VmRSS.
This is the result:

2007-03-13_14:35:01   PS: yum-updatesd   PID: 9260   RSS: 9652 kb
2007-03-13_14:40:01   PS: yum-updatesd   PID: 9260   RSS: 9652 kb
2007-03-13_14:45:02   PS: yum-updatesd   PID: 9260   RSS: 9652 kb
2007-03-13_14:50:01   PS: yum-updatesd   PID: 9260   RSS: 9652 kb
2007-03-13_14:55:02   PS: yum-updatesd   PID: 9260   RSS: 9652 kb
2007-03-13_15:00:01   PS: yum-updatesd   PID: 9260   RSS: 9652 kb
2007-03-13_15:05:01   PS: yum-updatesd   PID: 9260   RSS: 9652 kb
2007-03-13_15:10:01   PS: yum-updatesd   PID: 9260   RSS: 9652 kb
2007-03-13_15:15:03   PS: yum-updatesd   PID: 9260   RSS: 13968 kb
2007-03-13_15:20:01   PS: yum-updatesd   PID: 9260   RSS: 40524 kb
2007-03-13_15:25:01   PS: yum-updatesd   PID: 9260   RSS: 40524 kb
2007-03-13_15:30:02   PS: yum-updatesd   PID: 9260   RSS: 40524 kb
2007-03-13_15:35:02   PS: yum-updatesd   PID: 9260   RSS: 40524 kb
2007-03-13_15:40:01   PS: yum-updatesd   PID: 9260   RSS: 40524 kb
2007-03-13_15:45:01   PS: yum-updatesd   PID: 9260   RSS: 40524 kb
2007-03-13_15:50:01   PS: yum-updatesd   PID: 9260   RSS: 40524 kb
2007-03-13_15:55:02   PS: yum-updatesd   PID: 9260   RSS: 40524 kb
2007-03-13_16:00:02   PS: yum-updatesd   PID: 9260   RSS: 40524 kb
2007-03-13_16:05:02   PS: yum-updatesd   PID: 9260   RSS: 40524 kb
2007-03-13_16:10:01   PS: yum-updatesd   PID: 9260   RSS: 40524 kb
2007-03-13_16:15:02   PS: yum-updatesd   PID: 9260   RSS: 47380 kb
2007-03-13_16:20:02   PS: yum-updatesd   PID: 9260   RSS: 47380 kb
2007-03-13_16:25:01   PS: yum-updatesd   PID: 9260   RSS: 47380 kb
2007-03-13_16:30:01   PS: yum-updatesd   PID: 9260   RSS: 47380 kb
2007-03-13_16:35:01   PS: yum-updatesd   PID: 9260   RSS: 47380 kb
2007-03-13_16:40:02   PS: yum-updatesd   PID: 9260   RSS: 47380 kb
2007-03-13_16:45:05   PS: yum-updatesd   PID: 9260   RSS: 47380 kb
2007-03-13_16:50:01   PS: yum-updatesd   PID: 9260   RSS: 47380 kb
2007-03-13_16:55:02   PS: yum-updatesd   PID: 9260   RSS: 47380 kb

Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2007-03-19 22:04:45 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 231743 ***