[Bug 497141] New: gdb use excessive amounts of RAM
http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=497141 Summary: gdb use excessive amounts of RAM Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.1 Version: Final Platform: Other OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Development AssignedTo: pth@novell.com ReportedBy: hub@figuiere.net QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1b3) Gecko/20090311 SUSE/3.1b3-10.2 Firefox/3.1b3 When I try to obtain a backtrace from withing gdb, gdb start using an excessive amount of RAM an not display anymore. This apply repeatably under certain conditions. ie not in every situations, but in one situation it happen all the time (and I have found MANY cases). ps shows: hub 12138 4.9 63.9 1702672 482660 pts/4 D+ 01:25 0:16 | \_ gdb /gnote 1702672 is the VSS 482660 is the RSS As a comparison, I only have 768MB or RAM on this machine. It should be noted that the executable is built with -O0 to deal properly with C++ inlining. Also, I'm on 32-bits Intel. The gdb version is the one from 11.1: 6.8.50.20081120-2.1 Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=497141 User hub@figuiere.net added comment http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=497141#c1 --- Comment #1 from Hubert Figuiere <hub@figuiere.net> 2009-04-22 00:53:54 MDT --- I did checkout the "archer" repository of gdb and built the "archer-jankratochvil-fedora-merge" branch and the problem do NOT happen. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=497141 User pth@novell.com added comment http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=497141#c2 Philipp Thomas <pth@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |hub@figuiere.net --- Comment #2 from Philipp Thomas <pth@novell.com> 2009-04-22 03:53:16 MDT --- We need a self-contained test case to reproduce the bug. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=497141 Philipp Thomas <pth@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |pth@novell.com AssignedTo|pth@novell.com |matz@novell.com -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=497141 User hub@figuiere.net added comment http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=497141#c3 Hubert Figuiere <hub@figuiere.net> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |NEW Info Provider|hub@figuiere.net | --- Comment #3 from Hubert Figuiere <hub@figuiere.net> 2009-04-22 11:23:36 MDT --- compile gnote from master. The revision on which I had last problem was fca33aa8af184e6062ce7ba26617d8c259701010 The repository is git://git.gnome.org/gnote It occur when try to reproduce this bug: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=579362 I run gnote in gdb, and break when it "hangs" (a bad infinite loop). Then I do "bt". It is on the "bt" that gdb start using all the RAM it has. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=497141 User rguenther@novell.com added comment http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=497141#c4 Richard Guenther <rguenther@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |hub@figuiere.net --- Comment #4 from Richard Guenther <rguenther@novell.com> 2009-04-27 05:39:13 MDT --- You can try the gdb package from http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home://rguenther/openSUSE_11.1 which is based on the Fedora 11 gdb rpm. Does this fix your issues? -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=497141 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=497141#c5 Michael Matz <matz@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |RESOLVED InfoProvider|hub@figuiere.net | Resolution| |NORESPONSE --- Comment #5 from Michael Matz <matz@novell.com> 2011-05-30 15:13:42 UTC --- I assume it does. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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