Debian Bug report logs - #1003456
Excessive memory use with large binaries

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Package: lintian; Maintainer for lintian is Debian Lintian Maintainers <[email protected]>; Source for lintian is src:lintian (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Affects: src:linux

Reported by: Ben Hutchings <[email protected]>

Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2022 13:45:05 UTC

Severity: important

Found in versions lintian/2.115.0, lintian/2.114.0

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Subject: Re: Bug#1003456: Excessive memory use with large binaries
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Hi,

On Mon, Jan 10, 2022 at 5:45 AM Ben Hutchings <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> lintian allocated about 23 GiB

Thanks for reporting this!

That is one of several mysterious results of what happened when I
simplified the code. It's possibly due to excessive regex usage,
although Perl usually catches that. Another possibility is an
accidental recursion in Lintian's copy of your package's file index.
Either way, I will shortly add helpful profiling information that you
will be able to examine on our website.

On the positive side, I broke Lintian's 23 original checks into 353
pieces (and counting). It makes issues much easier to monitor and
isolate.

Kind regards
Felix Lechner



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