Hi Andrej I cloned and compiled dash (0.5.10.2-6) from https://salsa.debian.org/debian/dash
I did further testing and found my initial repro steps were incorrect. Offending script showing RSS growth is: ---------------------- #!/bin/sh while true do true || echo & sleep .1 done ---------------------- RSS will not grow if precedence is addressed like so: true || (echo &) I interpret it as starting/terminating cycle of a background job is leaky. Br Vitaly -----Original Message----- From: Andrej Shadura [mailto:and...@shadura.me] Sent: Sunday, March 15, 2020 6:47 PM To: Vitaly Zuevsky; 953...@bugs.debian.org Cc: Debian Bug Tracking System Subject: Re: Bug#953421: dash: Resident Set Size growth is unbound (memory leak) on an infinite shell loop Thanks for your report; this most likely is a bug in the upstream package. While I doubt it’s any of our patches that introduced this undesired behaviour, it would be great if you could verify this still happens with the latest upstream Git version of dash, and if it also does, if you followed up with the upstream at d...@vger.kernel.org. If that’s too much work for you right now (it’s okay if it is), I can do that for you, but, unfortunately, I cannot provide a timeline at the moment. -- Cheers, Andrej
