[ovirt-users] Proposing fix for EL6 m2crypto memory leak

[Daniel Helgenberger]

On 28.10.2014 11:51, Sven Kieske wrote:
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> On 28/10/14 11:07, Daniel Helgenberger wrote:
>> As I have seen no side effects, I propose adding a newer m2crypto to the
>> ovirt EL6 repos; with fixes the issue immediately (well, you need to
>> restart vdsmd
>
> This package is provided and installed from the base repo on el6.
> I really would discourage to blow the ovir repo up by
> yet-another-package.
>
> imho this should get fixed/backported in el6 base repo.
I very much agree this is the best solution. But this might take a lot 
of time as we fist need to find the root cause (see below).

I reasoned therefore adding m2crypto to oVirt EL6 repos should be a 
temporary measure.
I think everybody running EL6 hosts is suffering from this bug.
However, usually there are large amounts of RAM available in production 
hosts and VDSM might be restarted once in a while so this leak may as 
well be unnoticed - until the host is loaded and fails because of 
endless swapping.

Further, it is totally unclear to me whatever this is a bug in VDSM or 
m2crypto. If this is more clear, I am happy to open a BZ against 
m2crypto EL6.


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> just my 2 cents of course, but if ovirt ships this package
> you also need to maintain it.
>
I would volunteer to provide the RPMs for oVirt for the time being; as I 
did already. I have to build them anyway and if this makes any sense 
(OTOH, changes in this package are very rare it seems).


PS: May remark about EL6 being obsoleted was not meant seriously ;)


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