Bug 922465
| Summary: | ps: failed to allocate 1220640768 bytes of memory | ||||||||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Jan ONDREJ <ondrejj> | ||||||
| Component: | procps-ng | Assignee: | Jaromír Cápík <jcapik> | ||||||
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> | ||||||
| Severity: | unspecified | Docs Contact: | |||||||
| Priority: | unspecified | ||||||||
| Version: | 18 | CC: | jcapik, ovasik | ||||||
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| Hardware: | i686 | ||||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||||
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| Last Closed: | 2014-01-31 17:50:37 UTC | Type: | Bug | ||||||
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Created attachment 711284 [details]
/proc/PID/status
Some service startup scripts are using ps during startup process, which fails to start/stop some services at boot. Please, fix this bug. For example apache fails to start at aprox. 50% of attempts. Hello Jan. Could you please test the latest version available in f19 or rawhide? The RPMs can be downloaded from here: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=412140 Please, let me know. Thank you. Regards, Jaromir. Hello, (In reply to comment #3) > Could you please test the latest version available in f19 or rawhide? I can't test it, because I can't reproduce this with current F18. My current packages: kernel-PAE-3.8.5-201.fc18.i686 procps-ng-3.3.3-4.20120807git.fc18.i686 glibc-2.16-31.fc18.i686 Is it possible, that procps-ng-3.3.3-4 fixed this bug? * Po mar 04 2013 Jaromir Capik <jcapik> - 3.3.3-3.20120807git - Fixing ps crashes caused by insufficient buffer sizes (#917705) This message is a reminder that Fedora 18 is nearing its end of life. Approximately 4 (four) weeks from now Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 18. It is Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases that are no longer maintained. At that time this bug will be closed as WONTFIX if it remains open with a Fedora 'version' of '18'. Package Maintainer: If you wish for this bug to remain open because you plan to fix it in a currently maintained version, simply change the 'version' to a later Fedora version prior to Fedora 18's end of life. Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that we may not be able to fix it before Fedora 18 is end of life. If you would still like to see this bug fixed and are able to reproduce it against a later version of Fedora, you are encouraged change the 'version' to a later Fedora version prior to Fedora 18's end of life. Although we aim to fix as many bugs as possible during every release's lifetime, sometimes those efforts are overtaken by events. Often a more recent Fedora release includes newer upstream software that fixes bugs or makes them obsolete. Hello Jan. Sorry for no reply. Yes, it was very probably caused by the already resolved insufficient buffer size. I'm closing this report as you were unable to reproduce the problem with the latest updates. Anyway, if the problem appears again, do not hesitate to reopen this bug. Thanks for the report. Regards, Jaromir. |
Created attachment 711283 [details] strace log Description of problem: On an 32-bit system, ps process is trying to allocate 3 GB of RAM. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-PAE-3.8.2-206.fc18.i686 procps-ng-3.3.3-2.20120807git.fc18.i686 glibc-2.16-28.fc18.i686 How reproducible: 90% Steps to Reproduce: 1. ps Actual results: �1�H]o>���H ��H failed to allocate 1220640768 bytes of memory[root.sk ~]# Expected results: process list Additional info: Using "ps x" will display some processes. Looks like it's failing on 2nd process of httpd. Possible problem is with process which has too many groups. Strace and the /proc/PID/status file are attached. Possible same problem is on 64bit system, but allocating 3 GB on 64bit is possible, but can affect systems with small RAM.