Bug 156354 - x86 bits leaks memory
Summary: x86 bits leaks memory
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Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
Classification: Red Hat
Component: kernel
Version: 3.0
Hardware: ia64
OS: Linux
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high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Geoff Gustafson
QA Contact: Brian Brock
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-04-29 10:11 UTC by Ramakrishnan T M
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:07 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2005-09-12 19:24:46 UTC
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Description Ramakrishnan T M 2005-04-29 10:11:08 UTC 
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Description of problem:
When applications compiled on x86 are run on an IA64 machine with 2.4 kernel the application experiences memory growth and crashes. The same binaries works fine on an x86 machine with AS 3.0 (2.4 kernel) installed. The application uses api's like gethostbyname, communicates using sockets. etc.

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Create an application as per description
2.Compile and create binaries on x86 machine
3.Run the same binaries on ia64 machine
  

Actual Results:  The application showed memory growth over a period of 4hours and crached. Memory levels reached 1 GB in some cases.

Expected Results:  The applications should have run without problem. The typical memory consumption is about 60 MB on x86 machine.

Additional info:
Comment 1 Ernie Petrides 2005-04-29 19:00:22 UTC 
Please provide the source code to a simple reproducer program.  Thanks.
Comment 2 Ernie Petrides 2005-09-12 19:24:46 UTC 
Closing due to lack of response.
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