Package: procps
Version: 2:3.3.12-3
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
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* What led up to the situation?
I was running a script for some days, and over time, firefox memory usage
cranked up, I suspect this has led to the situation, where ps has thrown me a
bug.
The exact output which made me write this bug report (I was running multiple
instances of mawk parallelly):
Signal 11 (SEGV) caught by ps (3.3.12).
mawk: could not create a new process (Cannot allocate memory)
/bin/ps:ps/display.c:66: please report this bug
mawk: could not create a new process (Cannot allocate memory)
Signal 11 (SEGV) caught by ps (3.3.12).
mawk: could not create a new process (Cannot allocate memory)
/bin/ps:ps/display.c:66: please report this bug
mawk: could not create a new process (Cannot allocate memory)
I am not sure, if the mawk has anything to do with the ps error, my script was
roughly:
while sleep 1; do
ps | mawk ...
done
Because of the memory issue, I am not even sure if this is really a bug, but
report it anyway, since the output asked me to do so.
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-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.2
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages procps depends on:
ii init-system-helpers 1.48
ii libc6 2.24-11+deb9u1
ii libncurses5 6.0+20161126-1+deb9u1
ii libncursesw5 6.0+20161126-1+deb9u1
ii libprocps6 2:3.3.12-3
ii libtinfo5 6.0+20161126-1+deb9u1
ii lsb-base 9.20161125
Versions of packages procps recommends:
ii psmisc 22.21-2.1+b2
procps suggests no packages.
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/sysctl.conf changed:
kernel.dmesg_restrict = 0
-- no debconf information
