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Bug 791033 - gnome-software background service allocated a huge amount of memory, crashed system
gnome-software background service allocated a huge amount of memory, crashed ...
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gnome-software
Classification: Applications
Component: General
3.24.x
Other Linux
: Normal major
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Assigned To: GNOME Software maintainer(s)
GNOME Software maintainer(s)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2017-11-30 17:33 UTC by AsciiWolf
Modified: 2018-01-24 17:55 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
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Attachments
gnome-software gapplication-service threads with 9.6G allocated memory (331.50 KB, image/jpeg)
2017-11-30 17:33 UTC, AsciiWolf
Details

Description AsciiWolf 2017-11-30 17:33:45 UTC
Created attachment 364690 [details]
gnome-software gapplication-service threads with 9.6G allocated memory

Description of problem:
I have already reported this issue in Red Hat BZ, but it seems to be an upstream issue. After running dnf uninstall, my system suddenly became very slow and after a few seconds completely frozen. After a few minutes, I managed to switch to tty3, log in, run htop and see what caused the issue. See the attached screenshot.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gnome-software-3.24.3-1.fc26

How reproducible:
Hard.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run dnf install/uninstall/upgrade/etc.

Additional info:
This happened to me three times. First time it was during dnf install and resulted in broken rpm db that could not be fixed without an OS reinstall. Second time was now, after dnf uninstall. Fortunately, this time it happened after the dnf operation was done. Third time was few seconds after uninstalling an application (HandBrake) using GNOME Software. Unfortunately, I was not able to get any relevant logs.
Comment 1 Richard Hughes 2017-12-01 19:11:55 UTC
Going to need journal logs at the very least...
Comment 2 AsciiWolf 2017-12-09 16:18:44 UTC
(In reply to Richard Hughes from comment #1)
> Going to need journal logs at the very least...

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1486941#c2
Comment 3 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2018-01-24 17:55:06 UTC
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