Re: Some programs appear to cause system to leak memory, fill ram

2023-05-16 Thread Theo de Raadt
> Well, then the stategy is not to have a strategy, which is perfectly fine. The strategy is to teach the principle of not over commiting. > It still doesn't matter for the use case under discussion here. The "bug" > reporter expected some OOM type situation, and didn't observe any, because >

Re: Some programs appear to cause system to leak memory, fill ram

2023-05-16 Thread Rudolf Leitgeb
On Tue, 2023-05-16 at 06:33 -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote: > Rudolf Leitgeb wrote: > > > Lots of people (including myself) come from linux background and use > > OpenBSD for specific security sensitive tasks. Since OpenBSD, like  > > every other desktop OS these days, has some strategy to deal > >

Re: Some programs appear to cause system to leak memory, fill ram

2023-05-16 Thread Theo de Raadt
Theo de Raadt wrote: > Rudolf Leitgeb wrote: > > > Lots of people (including myself) come from linux background and use > > OpenBSD for specific security sensitive tasks. Since OpenBSD, like  > > every other desktop OS these days, has some strategy to deal > > with OOM conditions, the term

Re: Some programs appear to cause system to leak memory, fill ram

2023-05-16 Thread Theo de Raadt
Rudolf Leitgeb wrote: > Lots of people (including myself) come from linux background and use > OpenBSD for specific security sensitive tasks. Since OpenBSD, like  > every other desktop OS these days, has some strategy to deal > with OOM conditions, the term "OOM killer" is perfectly clear >

Re: Some programs appear to cause system to leak memory, fill ram

2023-05-16 Thread Rudolf Leitgeb
On Tue, 2023-05-16 at 09:16 +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote: > The strategy is that the sysadmin should configure datasize limits so > that processes hit memory allocation failures if they try to > overreach. > Defaults are setup with typical use-cases and machines in mind but > you > might know

Re: Some programs appear to cause system to leak memory, fill ram

2023-05-16 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2023/05/16 09:12, Rudolf Leitgeb wrote: > Lots of people (including myself) come from linux background and use > OpenBSD for specific security sensitive tasks. Since OpenBSD, like  > every other desktop OS these days, has some strategy to deal > with OOM conditions, the term "OOM killer" is

Re: Some programs appear to cause system to leak memory, fill ram

2023-05-16 Thread Rudolf Leitgeb
Lots of people (including myself) come from linux background and use OpenBSD for specific security sensitive tasks. Since OpenBSD, like  every other desktop OS these days, has some strategy to deal with OOM conditions, the term "OOM killer" is perfectly clear regardless of what the actual

Re: Some programs appear to cause system to leak memory, fill ram

2023-05-15 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2023/05/15 19:55, bugreport555 wrote: > Ok, I tested it in various ways and tried to force OOM killer to step in but > it never did and all worked fine. OOM killer? This isn't Linux.

Re: Some programs appear to cause system to leak memory, fill ram

2023-05-15 Thread bugreport555
Ok, I tested it in various ways and tried to force OOM killer to step in but it never did and all worked fine. So yeah, this is not a bug. Shame you can't somehow force to clear the cache and see actual ram use. It can look disturbing. --- Original Message --- On Monday, May 15th,

Re: Some programs appear to cause system to leak memory, fill ram

2023-05-15 Thread Rudolf Leitgeb
everything remains fine. On Mon, 2023-05-15 at 09:10 +, bugreport555 wrote: > > Synopsis: Some programs appear to cause system to leak memory, fill > > ram > > Category: system amd64 > > Environment: > System : OpenBSD 7.3 > Details : OpenBSD 7.3 (GENERIC.MP) #1125:

Some programs appear to cause system to leak memory, fill ram

2023-05-15 Thread bugreport555
>Synopsis: Some programs appear to cause system to leak memory, fill ram >Category: system amd64 >Environment: System : OpenBSD 7.3 Details : OpenBSD 7.3 (GENERIC.MP) #1125: Sat Mar 25 10:36:29 MDT 2023 dera...@amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC.MP Arc

Some programs appear to cause system to leak memory, fill ram

2023-05-15 Thread doomm...@int.pl
Synopsis: Some programs appear to cause system to leak memory, fill ramCategory: system amd64Environment: System : OpenBSD 7.3 Details : OpenBSD 7.3 (GENERIC.MP) #1125: Sat Mar 25 10:36:29 MDT 2023 dera...@amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC.MP Architecture: