Package: lintian Version: 2.5.10.2 Severity: normal Currently Lintian on lintian.d.o is doing a full run and top says:
[...] VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND [...] 2567m 818m 1528 R 81 40.6 432:36.97 lintian The run started on the 11th and I remember seeing it at 900ish VIRT/RES. Yesterday, it was at 2.5 G VIRT (don't remember the RES). Today, we are still at 2.5 G VIRT and RES has been 800-1000 MB for the past 30 minutes. We could be looking at a leak, because the VIRT is still growing a bit. Though, if so, only a subset of the packages triggers the leak. I am more inclined to believe it is long-living objects that we no longer have use, but still have a reference to. L::Tags keeps a table of statistics for each file processed that is not cleaned (afaict), so a slow grow is expected I guess. However, I have a feeling this is not the (only) cause of grow. During the write up of this email the stats has changed to: [...] VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND [...] 2699m 977m 1484 S 0 48.6 442:20.99 lintian If it is not a leak and just Perl not releasing memory back (regardless of reason), I think we should look at splitting full runs into smaller "short" lived processes. ~Niels -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
