On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 01:17:54PM +0200, Ancor Gonzalez Sosa wrote:
> On 07/11/2016 01:12 PM, Ancor Gonzalez Sosa wrote:
> > On 07/07/2016 07:38 PM, Ladislav Slezak wrote:
> >>
> >> A quick scan found out that the place which consumes most memory is
> >>
> >>   /usr/share/YaST2/lib/installation/ssh_config_file.rb:45:STRING: count: 4,
> >>   total size: 274056
> >>
> >> which loads the SSH keys and configuration from the previous installation 
> >> and needs
> >> about 270kB memory.

Is that the largest allocation, or the largest persistent (leaked)
allocation? IMHO we do not need to care if the memory is freed soon
enough.

> >>
> >> The question is we can optimize it better, the SSH keys actually need to 
> >> be stored
> >> somewhere as the target partition will be reformatted...
> > 
> > A quite trivial modification would be to change SshConfigFile#content
> > and SshKey::KeyFile#content to store the content of the files in a
> > temporary file and not in memory. It should be completely harmless,
> > since that code is new, sane and covered by unit tests.
> 
> Imo just made me notice that a temporary file is memory as well. Never
> mind. I said nothing. ;-)

But a temporary file can be deleted and the memory reused (I hope).
Which may be easier than convincing Ruby to let go of all the
references.

-- 
Martin Vidner, YaST Team
http://en.opensuse.org/User:Mvidner

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