Undoubtably, but that's a Perl bug... feel free to clone/reassign accordingly.
On 11/16/05, Adam Rosi-Kessel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is fixed in 2.10.0-1, but it would be interesting to figure out why > perl is maxing out the CPU on regexp parsing. I isolated the regexp in > question in bug #338799. Namely, this: > > $tmpPage =~ s/^.*?^[\s]*<tr > class=msg(new|old).*?^<td.*?name="Mid".value="([^"]+)".*?^<td>(.*?)<.*?^<td>.*?^[\s]*<a.href=.*?ShowLetter\?MsgId=([^&]+)&.*?\n(.*?)\n.*?^[\s]*<td > .*?>(.*?)<.*?^[\s]*<td>(.*?)<//ms > > Even though the main bug is now fixed in the new fetchyahoo, we should > really try to figure out how any perl regexp can basically take over an > entire system. That's not a good thing. > > grok wrote: > > Package: fetchyahoo > > Version: 2.9.0-1 > > Severity: normal > > > > > > I don't know what Debian policy fetchyahoo now violates, but it is now > > suddenly creating "out of memory" errors and having other packages close > > down, while multiple copies of fetchyahoo hang in memory adding a new > > one each time crontab runs; and each new copy now vies for 100% of CPU > > time. Upon 'pkill fetchyahoo' the sendmail program does mail me the log > > message, which stops at the line beginning "Getting Message ID(s)..." > > > > It's strange that this problem appears to have only started in the past > > day or two, and I have installed only 2, completely unrelated, packages > > and updated none in a number of weeks. > > > > > > > > > > -- System Information: > > Debian Release: testing/unstable > > APT prefers testing > > APT policy: (998, 'testing'), (501, 'stable'), (99, 'unstable') > > Architecture: i386 (i686) > > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash > > Kernel: Linux 2.4.20 > > Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) > > > > Versions of packages fetchyahoo depends on: > > ii libcrypt-ssleay-perl 0.51-3 Support for https protocol in > > LWP > > ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.45-2 A collection of modules that > > parse > > ii libio-socket-ssl-perl 0.97-1 Perl module implementing > > object or > > ii libmime-perl 5.417-1 Perl5 modules for > > MIME-compliant m > > ii liburi-perl 1.35-1 Manipulates and accesses URI > > strin > > ii libwww-perl 5.803-4 WWW client/server library for > > Perl > > ii perl 5.8.4-8 Larry Wall's Practical > > Extraction > > > > Versions of packages fetchyahoo recommends: > > ii libterm-readkey-perl 2.21-1.3 A perl module for simple > > terminal > > ii procmail 3.22-11 Versatile e-mail processor > > > > -- no debconf information > > > > > > > > > -- Chris Lawrence - http://blog.lordsutch.com/
