Bug 207263 – sys-apps/hal-0.5.9.1 memoryleak

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO

[Description Stefan de Konink 2008-01-24 08:46:23 UTC]

Looking at my memory usage it seems that the current 'stable' version of hald has serious memoryleaks. I'll investigate if this is also the case for the not yet unmasked 0.5.10 version.


4429 haldaemo  20   0  170m 167m 2524 S  0.0 11.0   5:18.58 hald 

...while at start up it is only a fraction of that number.

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2008-01-24 09:12:53 UTC]

Uhm... memory being used != memory leak. See http://valgrind.org/docs/manual/quick-start.html

Also emerge --info is missing.

[Comment 2 Stefan de Konink 2008-01-24 09:28:25 UTC]

emerge --info is not going to tell anything about a memoryleak, 170MB of RAM usage is unacceptable for a service which starts at about 700kb.

==13809== ERROR SUMMARY: 6 errors from 4 contexts (suppressed: 3 from 1)
==13809== malloc/free: in use at exit: 234,611 bytes in 5,804 blocks.
==13809== malloc/free: 31,129 allocs, 25,325 frees, 7,750,862 bytes allocated.
==13809== For counts of detected errors, rerun with: -v
==13809== searching for pointers to 5,804 not-freed blocks.
==13809== checked 295,488 bytes.
==13809== 
==13809== LEAK SUMMARY:
==13809==    definitely lost: 864 bytes in 87 blocks.
==13809==      possibly lost: 1,544 bytes in 23 blocks.
==13809==    still reachable: 232,203 bytes in 5,694 blocks.
==13809==         suppressed: 0 bytes in 0 blocks.


Maybe it is solved in a newer version that is still masked and I am installing now.


paludis 0.26.0_alpha5
Paludis build information:
    Compiler:
        CXX:                   powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu-g++ 4.1.2 (Gentoo 4.1.2 p1.0.2)
        CXXFLAGS:              -O2 -mcpu=7450 -pipe -maltivec -mabi=altivec
        LDFLAGS:               
        DATE:                  2008-01-09T02:36:02+0100

    Libraries:
        C++ Library:           GNU libstdc++ 20070214

    Reduced Privs:
        reduced_uid:           104
        reduced_uid->name:     paludisbuild
        reduced_uid->dir:      /dev/null
        reduced_gid:           1004
        reduced_gid->name:     paludisbuild

    Paths:
        DATADIR:               /usr/share
        LIBDIR:                /usr/lib
        LIBEXECDIR:            /usr/libexec
        SYSCONFDIR:            /etc
        PYTHONINSTALLDIR:      
        RUBYINSTALLDIR:        

Repository virtuals:
    format:                    virtuals

Repository installed-virtuals:
    format:                    installed_virtuals
    root:                      /

Repository gentoo:
    format:                    ebuild
    location:                  /usr/portage
    append_repository_name_to_write_cache: true
    builddir:                  /var/tmp/paludis
    cache:                     /usr/portage/metadata/cache
    distdir:                   /usr/portage/distfiles
    eapi_when_unknown:         0
    eapi_when_unspecified:     0
    eclassdirs:                /usr/portage/eclass
    ignore_deprecated_profiles: false
    layout:                    traditional
    names_cache:               /usr/portage/.cache/names
    newsdir:                   /usr/portage/metadata/news
    profile_eapi:              0
    profiles:                  /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/ppc/ppc32/2007.0
    securitydir:               /usr/portage/metadata/glsa
    setsdir:                   /usr/portage/sets
    sync:                      rsync://rsync.nl.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage
    sync_options:              
    use_manifest:              use
    write_cache:               /var/empty

    Package information:
        app-admin/eselect-compiler: (none)
        app-shells/bash:       3.2_p33
        dev-java/java-config:  1.3.7 2.1.3
        dev-lang/python:       2.4.4-r4 2.5.1-r5
        dev-python/pycrypto:   2.0.1-r6
        dev-util/ccache:       (none)
        dev-util/confcache:    (none)
        sys-apps/baselayout:   1.12.10-r5
        sys-apps/sandbox:      1.2.18.1-r2
        sys-devel/autoconf:    2.13 2.61-r1
        sys-devel/automake:    1.10.1 1.4_p6 1.5 1.6.3 1.7.9-r1 1.8.5-r3 1.9.6-r2
        sys-devel/binutils:    2.18-r1
        sys-devel/gcc-config:  1.4.0-r4
        sys-devel/libtool:     1.5.24
        virtual/os-headers:    2.6.23-r3 (for sys-kernel/linux-headers::installed)