found 412688 6.10-6 severity 412688 normal Package: coreutils Version: 6.10-6 Followup-For: Bug #412688
Hi, I tried to reproduce this bug with test data because it happens on a backup system which copies a lot of files and cannnot be used for testing. With test data consisting of merely some thousand (empty) files and some thousand deeply nested directories I can determine a memory usage of ~ 35% on Etch and ~ 45% on Sid. The system has 768MB of RAM so in both cases more then 250M RAM are used for as little as 100MB test data. The real data where we see this problem is several gigabytes of size and has some million files. Its already using more then 90% of RAM on a 1G system. One can easily imagine that the situation will get worse in the future, because number of files/directories is likely to increase over time. But its not really feasible to think about an upgrade to Lenny, because it seems the situation got even worse with the current coreutils version. In both cases OOM situations are expected soon. Lucas, why did you downgrade this bug? Severity normal is already quiet conservative for a bug that easily causes OOM situations and I'm tempted to upgrade it to important, but minor is some kind of understatement... Best Regards, Patrick -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages coreutils depends on: ii libacl1 2.2.47-2 Access control list shared library ii libc6 2.7-16 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libselinux1 2.0.65-5 SELinux shared libraries coreutils recommends no packages. coreutils suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
