Package: boinc-client
Version: 6.2.14-3
Severity: critical
Tags: patch
Justification: causes serious data loss
Client apps can have crufty code leading to OOM conditions. The attached patch
prevents this from taking down the system by configuring oom_adj to favor
removal.
-- Package-specific info:
-- Contents of /etc/default/boinc-client:
# This file is /etc/default/boinc-client, it is a configuration file for the
# /etc/init.d/boinc-client init script.
# Set this to 1 to enable and to 0 to disable the init script.
ENABLED=1
# Set this to 1 to enable advanced scheduling of the BOINC core client and
# all its sub-processes (reduces the impact of BOINC on the system's
# performance).
SCHEDULE=1
# The BOINC core client will be started with the permissions of this user.
BOINC_USER=boinc
# This is the data directory of the BOINC core client.
BOINC_DIR=/var/lib/boinc-client
# This is the location of the BOINC core client, that the init script uses.
# If you do not want to use the client program provided by the boinc-client
# package, you can specify here an alternative client program.
BOINC_CLIENT=/home/michael/src/BOINC/boinc
#BOINC_CLIENT=/usr/bin/boinc
# Here you can specify additional options to pass to the BOINC core client.
# Type 'boinc --help' or 'man boinc' for a full summary of allowed options.
#BOINC_OPTS=--allow_remote_gui_rpc
BOINC_OPTS=
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.1
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18.8-linode16 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages boinc-client depends on:
ii adduser3.110 add and remove users and groups
ii ca-certificates20080809 Common CA certificates
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.24Debian configuration management sy
ii libc6 2.7-18GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcurl3 7.18.2-8lenny2Multi-protocol file transfer libra
ii libssl0.9.80.9.8g-15+lenny1 SSL shared libraries
ii libstdc++6 4.3.2-1.1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii lsb-base 3.2-20Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii python 2.5.2-3 An interactive high-level object-o
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime
boinc-client recommends no packages.
Versions of packages boinc-client suggests:
pn boinc-app-setinone (no description available)
pn boinc-manager | kboincspy none (no description available)
ii schedtool 1.2.10-1 Queries/alters process' scheduling
-- debconf information excluded
*** /home/michael/boinc-client.patch
--- /etc/init.d/boinc-client2009-01-18 20:08:16.0 -0700
+++ boinc-client2009-06-24 00:47:04.0 -0700
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
BOINC_USER=boinc
BOINC_DIR=/var/lib/boinc-client
BOINC_CLIENT=/usr/bin/boinc
+BOINC_OOM_ADJ=15
# Source defaults file. Edit that file to configure this script.
if [ -e /etc/default/boinc-client ]; then
@@ -121,10 +122,11 @@
fi
fi
+children=`ps --ppid $pid -o pid= | tr '\n' ' '`
+
if [ ! -x `which schedtool 2/dev/null` ]; then
log_progress_msg schedtool not found
else
- children=`ps --ppid $pid -o pid= | tr '\n' ' '`
(schedtool -n 19 -D $pid $children /dev/null \
log_progress_msg idleprio) || \
(schedtool -n 19 -B $pid $children /dev/null \
@@ -132,6 +134,8 @@
(schedtool -n 19 -N $pid $children /dev/null \
log_progress_msg normal)
fi
+
+for BPID in ${pid} ${children}; do echo ${BOINC_OOM_ADJ}
/proc/${BPID}/oom_adj; echo; done
fi
log_end_msg 0
}
@@ -141,17 +145,21 @@
STATUS=Status of $DESC:
if is_running; then
log_success_msg $STATUS running.
+
+children=`ps --ppid $pid -o pid= | tr '\n' ' '`
if [ -x `which schedtool 2/dev/null` ]; then
log_success_msg Scheduling of $DESC:
schedtool $pid
- children=`ps --ppid $pid -o pid= | tr '\n' ' '`
if [ -n $children ]; then
log_success_msg Scheduling of $DESC's children:
schedtool $children
fi
fi
+log_success_msg OOM killer status for $DESC:
+for BPID in ${pid} ${children}; do echo PID ${BPID}: adj `cat
/proc/${BPID}/oom_adj`, score `cat /proc/${BPID}/oom_score`; done
+
# Display $BOINC_USER's cpu_share:
uid=`id -u $BOINC_USER`
cpu_share_file=/sys/kernel/uids/$uid/cpu_share
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.1
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18.8-linode16 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages boinc-client depends on:
ii adduser3.110 add and remove users and
