I installed procps-ng 3.3.16.49-ae4a myself on all our Ubuntu 20.04 computers. This fixed both problems, slow pgrep / pkill and crashing pgrep / pkill.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to procps in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1874824 Title: pgrep reports error "cannot allocate" when run without stack limit Status in procps package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in procps package in Debian: Unknown Bug description: If you have no stack limit (ulimit -S -s unlimited), any pgrep call will fail with an error: > pgrep vim pgrep: cannot allocate 4611686018427387903 bytes If you have a high stack limit (e.g. ulimit -S -s 500000), pgrep is very slow: > time pgrep vim 2196 real 8.48s user 8.40s syst 0.07s busy 99% rmem 253444 The relevant upstream bug report could be: https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps/-/issues/152 Archlinux bug report: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/66093 procps: Installed: 2:3.3.16-1ubuntu2 500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/main amd64 Packages To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/procps/+bug/1874824/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
