Bug#863101: Uscan uses all available memory of the system when run against guitarix

[Osamu Aoki]

Hi,

On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 11:09:03PM +0200, Víctor Cuadrado Juan wrote:
> On 21/05/17 22:05, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> > 
> > I've been unable to reproduce this using either jessie or sid's uscan
> > (running on a jessie host, admittedly). I'd be interested if anyone else
> > can reproduce this or if there's anything unusual about the machine.
> 
> Seems that it isn't only present on uscan: while running debsign I get a
> segmentation fault.

Have you checked hardware failure?  Did you reinstall perl to be safe
side?

> I've carried out heavy tasks on the machine (compiling,etc), and apart
> from this everything looks fine.

Like compiling kernel in C code?   debsign and uscan are perl code.  Any
of these regex tends to eat more memory but strange ....
 
> I was able to reproduce it again on my workstation configuration deployed
> into a fresh lxc container (using https://github.com/viccuad/salt-configs).
> There, uscan consumes all the cpu until it gets killed by zsh, and debsign
> the same.

Why don't you create a new account with minimal customization and bash
as login under a real machine.  Let"s not complicate matter with lxc.
Do you still suffer?

Osamu