Bug 431685 - setroubleshootd seems to have a memory leak
Summary: setroubleshootd seems to have a memory leak
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: setroubleshoot
Version: 8
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
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high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: John Dennis
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-02-06 14:07 UTC by Axel Straschil
Modified: 2009-01-09 05:55 UTC (History)
0 users

Fixed In Version:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2009-01-09 05:55:54 UTC
Type: ---
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
grep report_count /var/lib/setroubleshoot/audit_listener_database.xml (121.58 KB, text/plain)
2008-02-06 15:44 UTC, Axel Straschil
no flags Details

Description Axel Straschil 2008-02-06 14:07:58 UTC
From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.10) Gecko/20071213 Fedora/2.0.0.10-3.fc8 Firefox/2.0.0.10 pango-text

Description of problem:
setroubleshootd is linear consuming much memory, as example, after restarting top says:

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
30931 root      20   0  440m 197m 5360 S   13  9.8   0:17.94 setroubleshootd

When whatching:

19:40
19016 root 20 0 342m 99m 5356 S 0 4.9 0:34.40 setroubleshootd

20:10
19016 root 20 0 342m 99m 5456 S 0 4.9 2:18.58 setroubleshootd

21:30
19016 root 20 0 352m 109m 5456 S 0 5.4 6:57.15 setroubleshootd

22:20
19016 root 20 0 355m 112m 5456 S 0 5.6 9:56.77 setroubleshootd

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
setroubleshoot-server-1.10.7-1.fc8

How reproducible:
Always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install and start setroubleshootd
2. Activate selinux
3. whatch the memory consumed by setroubleshootd

Actual Results:
setroubleshootd consumes memory until the system ist crashing, workaround now ist frequent restart of setroubleshootd.

Expected Results:


Additional info:

Comment 1 John Dennis 2008-02-06 14:42:08 UTC
Is your system generating a lot of alerts? How many alerts are in the browser?
Do any of the alerts have large report counts? Are there any errors or
tracebacks in /var/log/setroubleshoot/setroubleshootd.log?

Comment 2 Axel Straschil 2008-02-06 15:11:13 UTC
> Is your system generating a lot of alerts

Yes, about 2 alerts per second.

> How many alerts are in the browser?

Sorry, which browser? How to start and count?

> Do any of the alerts have large report counts?

Sorry, how do i mesure that?

> Are there any errors or tracebacks in /var/log/setroubleshoot/setroubleshootd.log?

cat /var/log/setroubleshoot/setroubleshootd.log
2008-02-06 15:03:23,428 [email.WARNING] cannot open file
/var/lib/setroubleshoot/email_alert_recipients, No such file or directory

Thanks, Axel.

Comment 3 John Dennis 2008-02-06 15:28:11 UTC
The alert browser can be opened when you get the alert popup on your desktop or
by going to the System Tools menu and selecting the SELinux Troubleshooter menu
item.

If this is a server and you don't have a gui then as root:

% grep report_count /var/lib/setroubleshoot/audit_listener_database.xml

Comment 4 Axel Straschil 2008-02-06 15:44:06 UTC
Created attachment 294117 [details]
grep report_count /var/lib/setroubleshoot/audit_listener_database.xml

Comment 5 Axel Straschil 2008-02-06 15:46:41 UTC
See attachment above, and:

du -h /var/lib/setroubleshoot/audit_listener_database.xml
12M     /var/lib/setroubleshoot/audit_listener_database.xml

grep report_count /var/lib/setroubleshoot/audit_listener_database.xml  | wc -l
3353

Thanks, Axel.

Comment 6 Bug Zapper 2008-11-26 09:42:48 UTC
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Comment 7 Bug Zapper 2009-01-09 05:55:54 UTC
Fedora 8 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2009-01-07. Fedora 8 is 
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