Thanks Joseph! It's no better with 3.16.0-44-generic #59~lp1471029. Perhaps even slightly worse -- in my sample of 2 I've seen the heap at b8d- and b94-, while I think stock Vivid 3.19 was most often in the b7's.
$ uname -a Linux samba-build-i386-4-32bit 3.16.0-44-generic #59~lp1471029 SMP Wed Jul 22 22:24:19 UTC 2015 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux $ /usr/bin/xsltproc --nonet -o default/docs-xml/manpages/smb.conf.5 /home/ubuntu/autobuild/b22271/samba/docs-xml/xslt/man.xsl default/docs-xml/manpages/smb.conf.5.xml & (set -e; for x in {1..200}; do cat /proc/$!/maps > proc-maps/$!-$x; sleep 0.2;done) [1] 919 [1]+ Segmentation fault $ head proc-maps/919-2 b5976000-b5979000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 b5979000-b5995000 r-xp 00000000 fd:01 2095 /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 b5995000-b5996000 rw-p 0001b000 fd:01 2095 /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 b5996000-b5997000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 b5997000-b5a80000 r-xp 00000000 fd:01 56064 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6.0.20 b5a80000-b5a84000 r--p 000e9000 fd:01 56064 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6.0.20 b5a84000-b5a85000 rw-p 000ed000 fd:01 56064 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6.0.20 b5a85000-b5a8c000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 b5a8c000-b70f7000 r-xp 00000000 fd:01 55921 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libicudata.so.52.1 b70f7000-b70f8000 r--p 0166a000 fd:01 55921 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libicudata.so.52.1 $ tail proc-maps/919-2 b77c3000-b77c4000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0 [vdso] b77c4000-b77c6000 r--p 00000000 00:00 0 [vvar] b77c6000-b77e8000 r-xp 00000000 fd:01 2083 /lib/i386-linux-gnu/ld-2.21.so b77e8000-b77e9000 r--p 00021000 fd:01 2083 /lib/i386-linux-gnu/ld-2.21.so b77e9000-b77ea000 rw-p 00022000 fd:01 2083 /lib/i386-linux-gnu/ld-2.21.so b77ea000-b77ef000 r-xp 00000000 fd:01 58216 /usr/bin/xsltproc b77ef000-b77f0000 r--p 00004000 fd:01 58216 /usr/bin/xsltproc b77f0000-b77f1000 rw-p 00005000 fd:01 58216 /usr/bin/xsltproc b8db2000-b8f11000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [heap] bfbd8000-bfbf9000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [stack] -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1471029 Title: ELF programs with R_386_RELATIVE blocks are badly mapped into memory To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libxslt/+bug/1471029/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs