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Date:      Thu, 7 Aug 2003 23:14:04 +0800 (KRAST)
From:      Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.pp.ru>
To:        FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        stable@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   bin/55346: /bin/sh eats memory and CPU infinitely
Message-ID:  <200308071514.h77FE4xC034357@grosbein.pp.ru>
Resent-Message-ID: <200308071520.h77FK6YI082087@freefall.freebsd.org>

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>Number:         55346
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       /bin/sh eats memory and CPU infinitely
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Aug 07 08:20:05 PDT 2003
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Eugene Grosbein
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE i386
>Organization:
JSC Svyaz-Service
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD grosbein.pp.ru 4.8-STABLE FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE #3: Wed Aug 6 21:50:36 KRAST 2003 eu@grosbein.pp.ru:/usr/local/obj/usr/local/src/sys/DADV i386
	CPUTYPE=i686 and no other optimizations
	
>Description:
	/bin/sh leaks memory and can eat all CPU cycles when
	it become very big.

>How-To-Repeat:

	Test script is 15K in size so it comes gzipped
	and uuencoded. Yes, it is compressed very well.

begin 644 test.sh.gz
M'XL(`"5H,C\"`^W3P0F#`!``L/]-<2+T*WYUF^*!@FBI%=<O=(B"D.R0MNF>
MR]8=<\0U+VOEYWU6CCGMD3]#]L!-Y$-<$!<0%Q`7Q`7$!<0%<0%Q`7%!7$!<
;0%Q`7!`7^&_<8ZUZ91_3OE5\`=@<)[J\.P``
`
end
		
	Run it and watch how /bin/sh slowly increases
	its SIZE, RES, WCPU and CPU values.

	This is an exapmle. My real script grows upto 70Mb in size
	and eats all of idle Pentium-III 866Mhz cycles, it is
	machine-generated and runs 24x7x365. It's twice smaller
	than this test case.
	Now I have to restart it from time to time.

>Fix:

	Unknown for me.

Eugene Grosbein
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:



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