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* gnats/219: large PRs or updates take many minutes to process
@ 2001-07-13 21:24 dirk
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From: dirk @ 2001-07-13 21:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: gnats-gnats
>Number: 219
>Category: gnats
>Synopsis: large PRs or updates take many minutes to process
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: unassigned
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Fri Jul 13 21:24:00 PDT 2001
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: dirk bergstrom, juniper networks, inc.
>Release: gnats 4.0a
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD aphid.juniper.net 4.2-STABLE FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE
>Description:
if you try to submit a large (>500K) update to an existing PR vai email,
pr-edit goes nuts, eating 98% of CPU for many minutes (well over an hour
for my 1.4 MB testcase). the entire gnats database
is locked while this goes on (and on). it's an effective DOS
attack...
dbergstr@crawler:gnats/db/gnats-queue:166> ls -l bigstuff
-rw-rw-r-- 1 dbergstr foo 1440602 Jul 13 16:14 bigstuff
dbergstr@crawler:gnats/db/gnats-queue:167> ps auwwx | grep gnats
gnats 28675 98.1 0.5 1520 1192 p0 R 4:14PM 85:40.87 /opt/gnats/libexec/gnats/pr-edit --database=default -f bigstuff --submit
gnats 28667 0.0 0.3 1048 644 p0 I 4:14PM 0:00.14 /opt/gnats/libexec/gnats/queue-pr --run -d default
gnats 28668 0.0 0.1 632 272 p0 I 4:14PM 0:00.01 /bin/sh /opt/gnats/libexec/gnats/file-pr -f bigstuff --database default
>How-To-Repeat:
create a PR, then submit a very large update to that PR via email.
>Fix:
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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