Bug 150248 - memory leak using vfork/execve on AS/ES 3.0
Summary: memory leak using vfork/execve on AS/ES 3.0
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
Classification: Red Hat
Component: glibc
Version: 3.0
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Jakub Jelinek
QA Contact: Brian Brock
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Reported: 2005-03-03 22:25 UTC by Isabel Lin
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:07 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2005-05-23 09:54:53 UTC
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Description Isabel Lin 2005-03-03 22:25:44 UTC
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Description of problem:
    I have a multi-threaded program that uses vfork/execve to execute commands. The program is compiled on AS 2.1 using gcc-3.0.4. When the program is run on  AS 2.1 with glibc-2.2.4-26, no memory leak is reported using "top". If the program is run on AS 3.0 or ES 3.0 with glibc-2.3.2-95.3, then I see RSS keep incrementing by 4K using "top". The same program, if compiled on AS 3.0 using gcc-3.2.3, does not report any memory leak.
    Is this a known issue? What should I do to compile the program once on AS 2.1 to be able to resolve the memory leak issue on 3.0? 


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
glibc-2.3.2-95.3

How reproducible:
Always

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Comment 1 Jakub Jelinek 2005-03-04 11:20:21 UTC
No, this is not know.  Can you create a small self-contained testcase?
BTW, 2.3.2-95.3 is really old, current RHEL3 glibc is -95.30 and contains many
bugfixes since the original RHEL3 GA glibc.

Comment 2 Jakub Jelinek 2005-05-02 09:27:09 UTC
Without that information we really can't move forward.
You can just use "Create a New Attachment" to add the attachment, or if that
doesn't work for you for whatever reason, you can just mail it to me.

If there is no response soon, I'll close this bug.


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