Re: Large bopm processes

On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, Jan Chrillesen <[email protected]> wrote:

> After adding quite a few protocol lines to our bopm config the bopm
> processes have grown rather big:
> 
> bopm    73872  0.4 31.5 164016 163856  ??  S     5:30AM   3:05.71
> bin/bopm -c irc.avalonworks.ca
> bopm    74633  0.4 32.1 167444 167292  ??  S     6:20AM   2:22.50
> bin/bopm -c irc.inet.tele.dk
> 
> This is with 251 protocol lines in the config and only happens on our 2
> most active scanners. We have 2 less active scanners on the same box,
> same config, and they're only a few MB.

One of the processes grew to 500+ MB and crashed

#0  0x280ad5f8 in kill () from /usr/lib/libc.so.4
(gdb) bt
#0  0x280ad5f8 in kill () from /usr/lib/libc.so.4
#1  0x280e964a in abort () from /usr/lib/libc.so.4
#2  0x280c6383 in __assert () from /usr/lib/libc.so.4
#3  0x8050d39 in libopm_MyMalloc (bytes=152) at malloc.c:49
#4  0x80502b3 in libopm_connection_create () at libopm.c:758
#5  0x80501a1 in libopm_scan_create (scanner=0x8059140, remote=0x28010960)
    at libopm.c:679
#6  0x804ffd6 in opm_scan (scanner=0x8059140, remote=0x28010960)
    at libopm.c:514
#7  0x804df91 in scan_connect (user=0xbfbffc14, 
    msg=0x80576a0 ":irc.inet.tele.dk NOTICE TeleOPM :*** Notice -- Client connec
ting: Sz3L78 ([email protected]) [217.xx.xx.xx] {2} [Sz3L]")
    at scan.c:368
#8  0x804c6fb in m_notice (parv=0x8057640, parc=4, 
    msg=0x80576a0 ":irc.inet.tele.dk NOTICE TeleOPM :*** Notice -- Client connec
ting: Sz3L78 ([email protected]) [217.xx.xx.xx] {2} [Sz3L]", 
source_p=0x0) at irc.c:1054
#9  0x804c106 in irc_parse () at irc.c:628
#10 0x804bf87 in irc_read () at irc.c:520
#11 0x804b979 in irc_cycle () at irc.c:184
#12 0x804cc2d in main (argc=3, argv=0xbfbffd78) at main.c:195
#13 0x8049419 in _start ()
(gdb)

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Regards
Jan