hush - memory leak?

Denys Vlasenko vda.linux at googlemail.com
Tue Dec 21 20:17:49 UTC 2010


On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 6:15 PM, Piotr Grudzinski <piotr at powersmiths.com> wrote:
> The email seems to disappeared. Here is what I sent:
>
> Hi All,
>
> With BB 1.18.1 on NOMMU system and using hush (all .config is attached) I am
> running the following command:
>
> # while true; do free; done
>
> The free memory goes done and system becomes unstable - various processes
> are being killed by the kernel.This happens when the "Standalone shell"
> option is selected. BB 1.17.4 with the same option selected worked fine.
> FEATURE_CLEAN_UP is selected.

My investigation shows that there is a bug in FEATURE_CLEAN_UP-enabled
code is hush.

You don't need FEATURE_CLEAN_UP (not useful even on NOMMU),
please disable it and let me know whether it helps.

-- 
vda


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