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#1 2004-11-05 14:22:42

vmiklos
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Registered: 2004-11-05
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[BUG] memleak in pacman?

hi

when installing big packages (xorg, etc) pacman's memory usage is very intersting. it starts with 5-6 MB and while installing the pakage it uses more than 100MB(!). it is very bad when using pacman on a computer wich has only 64MB of phisical memory and 128 MB swap

this is normal, or it is a memory leak?

usually it ends with the oom killer's kill :cry:

greetings

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#2 2004-11-05 17:43:17

apeiro
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From: Victoria, BC, Canada
Registered: 2002-08-12
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Re: [BUG] memleak in pacman?

Make sure you have this patch in your libtar library.  It has a nasty memleak which grows quickly on large tar files.

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#3 2004-11-05 19:14:29

vmiklos
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Registered: 2004-11-05
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Re: [BUG] memleak in pacman?

i'll try that wink

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#4 2004-11-06 03:28:28

afu
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From: Tuscalooser, Alabummer
Registered: 2004-02-19
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Re: [BUG] memleak in pacman?

Soooo.... should we all be patching now? Or is this included in the new updates?

I haven't noticed it, but I am currently pacman-ing only once about every month or two depending on security issues or new pkg needs. Me no like bleeding edge. Me need stability.

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#5 2004-11-07 19:03:06

zezaz
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From: Bordeaux, France
Registered: 2004-04-26
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Re: [BUG] memleak in pacman?

afu wrote:

Me need stability.

U need Debian.

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#6 2004-11-07 19:55:19

apeiro
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Re: [BUG] memleak in pacman?

afu wrote:

Soooo.... should we all be patching now? Or is this included in the new updates?

No no, this problem was fixed in Arch months ago.  VMiklos is having the problem in frugalware, not Arch.

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