Bug#923711: squashfs-tools: Please apply frag_deflator_thread removal patch

2019-03-26 Thread GCS
Hi lynxis, On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 11:04 PM Alexander Couzens wrote: > > I'm playing with the different patched versions for hours now. > > Indeed, it seems with your latest patch the memory leak is bearable. > > Nice to hear. I compressed a 8GB tree of toolchains and rootfs with > valgrind (too

Bug#923711: squashfs-tools: Please apply frag_deflator_thread removal patch

2019-03-25 Thread Alexander Couzens
Hi Laszlo, > I'm playing with the different patched versions for hours now. > Indeed, it seems with your latest patch the memory leak is bearable. Nice to hear. I compressed a 8GB tree of toolchains and rootfs with valgrind (took > 10h ;) without any noticable leaks. > I've never tested CPU usa

Bug#923711: squashfs-tools: Please apply frag_deflator_thread removal patch

2019-03-25 Thread GCS
On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 3:50 PM Alexander Couzens wrote: > Here is an updated patch to match debian's state of squashfs-tools. I'm playing with the different patched versions for hours now. Indeed, it seems with your latest patch the memory leak is bearable. I've never tested CPU usage before. I'

Bug#923711: squashfs-tools: Please apply frag_deflator_thread removal patch

2019-03-25 Thread Alexander Couzens
Hi lamby, > Alas, I don't think I will be able to get to writing a patch/fix today > as I don't fully understand the leak (or, actually, the original > patch!) just yet. > > Lynxis, do you have any quick pointers, however? original, my patch had the problem, that it use the same stream (compres

Bug#923711: squashfs-tools: Please apply frag_deflator_thread removal patch

2019-03-25 Thread Chris Lamb
Dear lynxis, > original, my patch had the problem, that it use the > same stream (compressor context) as the main thread. This seems to be > ok, as long the compression is not lzo (I tested with lzma). > > After your patch to fix lzo, the compressor will be initialized with a > new context on ev

Bug#923711: squashfs-tools: Please apply frag_deflator_thread removal patch

2019-03-25 Thread Alexander Couzens
> Laszlo, would you like any assistance with a debdiff or is lynxis' > patch sufficient asis? You will have to patch the existing patch, if > you see what I mean... Here is an updated patch to match debian's state of squashfs-tools. Best, lynxis Index: squashfs-tools-4.3/squashfs-tools/mksquashfs

Bug#923711: squashfs-tools: Please apply frag_deflator_thread removal patch

2019-03-25 Thread Chris Lamb
Hi László, > Am I right that this isn't going to be fixed soon? I will remove this > patch on Monday in the afternoon as the release of Buster is getting > close. Alas, I don't think I will be able to get to writing a patch/fix today as I don't fully understand the leak (or, actually, the origi

Bug#923711: squashfs-tools: Please apply frag_deflator_thread removal patch

2019-03-24 Thread GCS
Hi all, On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 7:33 PM Chris Lamb wrote: > Looks like a few other folks have hit this issue: > https://redmine.tails.boum.org/code/issues/16457 > This is also the case why not all CPU cores are used during the run of mksquashfs. Am I right that this isn't going to be fixed s