Bug#1003456: Excessive memory use with large binaries

Hi, So far, the most convenient way to reproduce this bug is the following command. It exercises only a single, very simple check. [1] bin/lintian -C linda --debug --no-override --no-tag-display-limit ../picolibc-arm-none-eabi_1.7.4-1_all.deb Kind regards, Felix Lechner [1]

Bug#1003456: Excessive memory use with large binaries

On Mon, 2022-01-10 at 05:56 -0800, Felix Lechner wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Jan 10, 2022 at 5:45 AM Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > > lintian allocated about 23 GiB > > Thanks for reporting this! > > That is one of several mysterious results of what happened when I > simplified the code. It's

Bug#1003456: Excessive memory use with large binaries

Hi, On Mon, Jan 10, 2022 at 5:45 AM Ben Hutchings wrote: > > lintian allocated about 23 GiB Thanks for reporting this! That is one of several mysterious results of what happened when I simplified the code. It's possibly due to excessive regex usage, although Perl usually catches that. Another

Bug#1003456: Excessive memory use with large binaries

Package: lintian Version: 2.114.0 Severity: important I tried running lintian on a full amd64 build of linux. lintian allocated about 23 GiB of VM and then was OOM-killed before generating any output. I notice that has no information, probably because