[Bug 828730] [NEW] apt-get source memory leak

[Mark Menkhus]

Public bug reported:

I used apt-get source to download a bunch of source and noticed I would
run out of memory.  I tried this on several machines, including LTS
10.04.03, with apt 0.7.25.3ubuntu9.6 for amd64 compiled on Jul 13 2011
11:09:35.

I used apt-get source in a script where several thousand downloads are
done, the system will be unrecoverably out of memory, requiring reboot.
You can not download the whole source tree this way, without a lot of
reboots.

example:
for package in `dpkg -l | grep 'ii' | tr -s '[:blank:]' '\t' | cut --fields=2`
do
mkdir $package
cd $package
apt-get --download-only source $package
cd ..
done

Monitor the memory use using top or in /proc, eventually the system will
start thrashing.

Work around: unknown , how does one download the ubuntu or debian source
tree ?

Mark Menkhus, HP

** Affects: apt (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Title:
   apt-get source memory leak

Status in “apt” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I used apt-get source to download a bunch of source and noticed I
  would run out of memory.  I tried this on several machines, including
  LTS 10.04.03, with apt 0.7.25.3ubuntu9.6 for amd64 compiled on Jul 13
  2011 11:09:35.

  I used apt-get source in a script where several thousand downloads are
  done, the system will be unrecoverably out of memory, requiring
  reboot.  You can not download the whole source tree this way, without
  a lot of reboots.

  example:
  for package in `dpkg -l | grep 'ii' | tr -s '[:blank:]' '\t' | cut --fields=2`
  do
  mkdir $package
  cd $package
  apt-get --download-only source $package
  cd ..
  done

  Monitor the memory use using top or in /proc, eventually the system
  will start thrashing.

  Work around: unknown , how does one download the ubuntu or debian
  source tree ?

  Mark Menkhus, HP

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