Bug 73116 - fam eats memory until OOM
Summary: fam eats memory until OOM
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Raw Hide
Classification: Retired
Component: fam
Version: 1.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Alexander Larsson
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Blocks: 67218 79579
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-08-30 21:49 UTC by Elliot Lee
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:38 UTC (History)
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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2003-01-31 15:47:54 UTC
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use getgrouplist function instead of slow impl (640 bytes, patch)
2002-08-30 22:17 UTC, Elliot Lee 		no flags Details | Diff
Again (399 bytes, patch)
2002-09-09 10:53 UTC, Elliot Lee 		no flags Details | Diff
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Description Elliot Lee 2002-08-30 21:49:00 UTC 
Description of Problem:

I tried to log into GNOME, it just got into this endless loop of eating memory until it died 
and was respawned by xinetd.
Logging into GNOME kicks off an endless loop: eat memory until OOMkilled, then get 
respawned by xinetd.

fam-2.6.8-4, glibc-2.2.91-1, kernel-2.4.18-12.5
Comment 1 Elliot Lee 2002-08-30 22:16:08 UTC 
ahah, glibc bug with NIS groups.

Attaching a patch for fam to make it use the more efficient getgrouplist (also necessary will 
be adding -DHAVE_GETGROUPLIST to the compilation flags).
Comment 2 Elliot Lee 2002-08-30 22:17:50 UTC 
Created attachment 74044 [details]
use getgrouplist function instead of slow impl
Comment 3 Alexander Larsson 2002-08-31 08:38:47 UTC 
Eh. That patch looks garbled, but it's probably ok.
Comment 4 Alexander Larsson 2002-09-09 06:44:58 UTC 
Elliot, can you re-attach the patch?
Comment 5 Elliot Lee 2002-09-09 10:53:05 UTC 
Created attachment 75546 [details]
Again
Comment 6 Alexander Larsson 2002-09-09 11:17:46 UTC 
That one looks better.
I wonder what happened to the first one.
Comment 7 Alexander Larsson 2003-01-31 14:55:07 UTC 
elliot: That patch doesn't really do anything at the moment. 
HAVE_GETGROUPLIST is not ever set, and i think you need to pass some magic
BSD_SOURCE or GNU_SOURCE define.
Comment 8 Alexander Larsson 2003-01-31 15:01:35 UTC 
I guess we could force the defines in the specfile though..
Comment 9 Alexander Larsson 2003-01-31 15:23:53 UTC 
The patch is building in 2.6.8-9
Comment 10 Alexander Larsson 2003-01-31 15:47:54 UTC 
Seems to work.
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