[Bug 1874824] Please test proposed package
Robie Basak
1874824 at bugs.launchpad.net
Wed Apr 7 16:36:52 UTC 2021
Hello Sven, or anyone else affected,
Accepted procps into groovy-proposed. The package will build now and be
available at
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/procps/2:3.3.16-5ubuntu2.1 in a few
hours, and then in the -proposed repository.
Please help us by testing this new package. See
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how
to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this
update out to other Ubuntu users.
If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug,
mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been
performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-
groovy to verification-done-groovy. If it does not fix the bug for you,
please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-
failed-groovy. In either case, without details of your testing we will
not be able to proceed.
Further information regarding the verification process can be found at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in
advance for helping!
N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s)
fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in
-proposed for a minimum of 7 days.
** Changed in: procps (Ubuntu Focal)
Status: In Progress => Fix Committed
** Tags added: verification-needed-focal
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Title:
pgrep reports error "cannot allocate" when run without stack limit
Status in procps package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Status in procps source package in Focal:
Fix Committed
Status in procps source package in Groovy:
Fix Committed
Status in procps source package in Hirsute:
Fix Released
Status in procps package in Debian:
New
Bug description:
[Impact]
- Users who have ulimit set high would see either slow
or failed pgrep and pkill commands
- Users who have ulimit set to unlimited would see
failed pgrep and pkill commands
- This bug occurs because the behavior of sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX)
changed with a newer version of the kernel.
[Test Case]
- set the ulimit to unlimited by running `ulimit -S -s unlimited`
- run `pgrep bash` to see that the "cannot allocate" error is
printed and the command has failed.
[Where Problems Could Occur]
- We have set upper and lower limits on the size of the malloc, but
if further kernel versions break the call to sysconf in
unexpected ways we could still see problems.
[Original Description]
If you have no stack limit (ulimit -S -s unlimited), any pgrep call
will fail with an error:
> pgrep vim
pgrep: cannot allocate 4611686018427387903 bytes
If you have a high stack limit (e.g. ulimit -S -s 500000), pgrep is
very slow:
> time pgrep vim
2196
real 8.48s user 8.40s syst 0.07s busy 99% rmem 253444
The relevant upstream bug report could be: https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps/-/issues/152
Archlinux bug report: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/66093
procps:
Installed: 2:3.3.16-1ubuntu2
500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/main amd64 Packages
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