Bug 674552

Summary: ksh memory leak significantly slows the execution of shell scripts
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: RHEL Program Management <pm-rhel>
Component: kshAssignee: Michal Hlavinka <mhlavink>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: BaseOS QE - Apps <qe-baseos-apps>
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Version: 5.5CC: bnater, bz-reply, cww, gbarros, jwest, kvolny, mhlavink, mpoole, ovasik, pm-eus, tao, tsmetana
Target Milestone: rcKeywords: Patch, ZStream
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Due to a memory leak in the ksh executable, the performance of long running scripts could decrease significantly over the time. With this update, the underlying source code has been modified to prevent this memory leak, and the execution of long running scripts is no longer slowed down.
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Bug Depends On: 586923    
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Description RHEL Program Management 2011-02-02 13:31:51 UTC
This bug has been copied from bug #586923 and has been proposed
to be backported to 5.6 z-stream (EUS).

Comment 5 Jaromir Hradilek 2011-02-03 15:33:06 UTC
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Due to a memory leak in the ksh executable, the performance of long running scripts could decrease significantly over the time. With this update, the underlying source code has been modified to prevent this memory leak, and the execution of long running scripts is no longer slowed down.

Comment 6 Branislav NĂ¡ter 2011-02-23 10:36:45 UTC
Bugfix was successfully verified on ksh-20100202-1.el5_6.3 package on all architectures (i386, ia64, ppc, s390x, x86-64). Loop time doesn't increase (see bellow) 

# rpm -q ksh
ksh-20100202-1.el5_6.3.i386

ksh version: Version AJM 93t+ 2010-02-02

    +-------------- pass number
    |            +- current loop time/1st loop time
    |            |  process size --------------------------------------+
    |            |  total time in seconds ----------------+            |
    |            |  current loop time +                   |            |
    |            |                    |                   |            |
   \ /          \ /                  \ /                 \ /          \ /
p#   1: cur/1st= 1.00; loop(secs)=  1.87; total(secs)=    1.87; RSS=0001444
p#   2: cur/1st= 1.00; loop(secs)=  1.86; total(secs)=    3.73; RSS=0001452
p#   3: cur/1st= 1.00; loop(secs)=  1.86; total(secs)=    5.59; RSS=0001452
p#   4: cur/1st= 1.01; loop(secs)=  1.89; total(secs)=    7.48; RSS=0001452
p#   5: cur/1st= 1.01; loop(secs)=  1.89; total(secs)=    9.37; RSS=0001452
p#   6: cur/1st= 1.01; loop(secs)=  1.89; total(secs)=   11.27; RSS=0001452
p#   7: cur/1st= 1.01; loop(secs)=  1.89; total(secs)=   13.16; RSS=0001452
p#   8: cur/1st= 1.01; loop(secs)=  1.89; total(secs)=   15.06; RSS=0001452
p#   9: cur/1st= 1.01; loop(secs)=  1.89; total(secs)=   16.95; RSS=0001452
p#  10: cur/1st= 1.01; loop(secs)=  1.89; total(secs)=   18.84; RSS=0001452

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2011-02-28 09:52:01 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 therefore 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/RHBA-2011-0304.html