I cannot reproduce this. I ran apport with -S system and no cache directories (so it had to download everything). For xeyes (tiny report) I get
VmPeak: 169884 kB VmSize: 168680 kB VmLck: 0 kB VmPin: 0 kB VmHWM: 103936 kB VmRSS: 102880 kB VmData: 78200 kB VmPeak: 166392 kB and for gedit (large report, over 5 MB compressed core dump) I get VmSize: 148744 kB VmLck: 0 kB VmPin: 0 kB VmHWM: 104744 kB VmRSS: 87296 kB VmData: 82324 kB VmStk: 136 kB VmExe: 2176 kB VmLib: 8152 kB VmPTE: 300 kB VmSwap: 0 kB given the overhead of Python etc. a magnitude of 100 MB data is very reasonable. Also, the original problem here has been fixed and the fix is still in place. Can you please file a new bug report with an example crash that causes memory usage to explode? Thanks! ** Changed in: apport Status: New => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/981155 Title: apport-retrace crashed with OSError in _execute_child(): [Errno 12] Cannot allocate memory To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/apport/+bug/981155/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs