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From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com>
Subject: Re: ports/37946: portupgrade: portsdb -Uu exhausts memory
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The following reply was made to PR ports/37946; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com>
To: Nate Eldredge <neldredge@hmc.edu>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: ports/37946: portupgrade: portsdb -Uu exhausts memory
Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 22:57:42 -0700

 Nate Eldredge wrote:
 
 >>Number:         37946
 >>Category:       ports
 >>Synopsis:       portupgrade: portsdb -Uu exhausts memory
 >>Confidential:   no
 >>Severity:       serious
 >>Priority:       high
 >>Responsible:    freebsd-ports
 >>State:          open
 >>Quarter:        
 >>Keywords:       
 >>Date-Required:
 >>Class:          sw-bug
 >>Submitter-Id:   current-users
 >>Arrival-Date:   Fri May 10 22:00:02 PDT 2002
 >>Closed-Date:
 >>Last-Modified:
 >>Originator:     Nate Eldredge
 >>Release:        FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE-p4 i386
 >>Organization:
 >>
 > Harvey Mudd College
 > 
 >>Environment:
 >>
 > System: FreeBSD mercury 4.5-RELEASE-p4 FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE-p4 #6: Sat May 4 15:58:41 PDT 2002 nate@mercury:/big/obj/big/src/sys/MERCURY i386
 > 
 > 
 > 	
 > 
 >>Description:
 >>
 > Running portsdb -Uu runs for a while, then starts a perl process which
 > grows to use over 300M of memory.  This exhausts the virtual memory on
 > my machine, the process gets killed, and the index update doesn't work.
 > 
 > My ports tree was checked out this morning.  The only unusual feature
 > about it is that excludes most non-English ports.  My refuse file contains:
 > 
 > ports/chinese
 > ports/french
 > ports/german
 > ports/hebrew
 > ports/japanese/[^nt]*
 > ports/korean
 > ports/russian
 > ports/ukrainian
 > ports/vietnamese
 > 
 > I have reproduced this both times I tried it.  I'm happy to send more details,
 > test patches, etc.
 > 
 > I have portupgrade rev.1.179 installed, which I believe is the latest.
 > 
 >>How-To-Repeat:
 >>
 > portsdb -Uu
 > 
 >>Fix:
 >>
 > I wish!
 > 
 
 
 This was fixed when the expat2 - gettext problem was eliminated. You 
 need to recvsup ports-all.
 
 Kent
 
 
 > 
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 > 
 
 
 -- 
 Kent Stewart
 Richland, WA
 
 http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html
 

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