#8928: 64-bit statically linked binary consumes all memory while spinning on 'SIGVTALRM's ----------------------------------+---------------------------------- Reporter: cswarth | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Compiler | Version: 7.6.3 Keywords: | Operating System: Linux Architecture: x86_64 (amd64) | Type of failure: Runtime crash Difficulty: Unknown | Test Case: Blocked By: | Blocking: Related Tickets: | ----------------------------------+---------------------------------- I actually have no idea if this is a haskell bug or not, but since the earlier reported symptoms are similar, and the "pandoc" program is compiled with GHC, I thought I would report it here as well. This situation sounds exactly like [https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/7344 this bug] reported 17 months ago. Symptoms are 'pandoc --version' hangs and consumes memory until the process eventually dies with an OOM error. This seems to only happen when LC_ALL is set in the environment, and only when running the statically linked pandoc. {{{ $ uname -a Linux server 3.5.0-43-generic #66~precise1-Ubuntu SMP Thu Oct 24 14:52:23 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux $ wget https://s3.amazonaws.com/rstudio-buildtools/pandoc-1.12.3.zip $ unzip pandoc-1.12.3.zip $ file pandoc-1.12.3/linux/debian/x86_64/pandoc pandoc-1.12.3/linux/debian/x86_64/pandoc: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (GNU/Linux), statically linked, for GNU/Linux 2.6.15, BuildID[sha1]=0x9bc69f51b7c213cf58e9f8692f4b46f9f05fb723, not stripped $ LC_ALL=C strace -e trace=open,close pandoc-1.12.3/linux/debian/x86_64/pandoc --version open("/usr/lib/gconv/gconv-modules.cache", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/lib/gconv/gconv-modules", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) --- SIGVTALRM (Virtual timer expired) @ 0 (0) --- --- SIGVTALRM (Virtual timer expired) @ 0 (0) --- --- SIGVTALRM (Virtual timer expired) @ 0 (0) --- --- SIGVTALRM (Virtual timer expired) @ 0 (0) --- ^C--- SIGINT (Interrupt) @ 0 (0) --- }}} Note this problem does not occur if I run an older dynamically linked pandoc under the same circumstances. {{{ $ /usr/bin/pandoc --version pandoc 1.9.1.1 Compiled with citeproc-hs 0.3.4, texmath 0.6.0.3, highlighting-kate 0.5.0.5. Syntax highlighting is supported for the following languages: Actionscript, Ada, Alert, Alert_indent, Apache, Asn1, Asp, Awk, Bash, Bibtex, Boo, C, Changelog, Clojure, Cmake, Coffeescript, Coldfusion, Commonlisp, Cpp, Cs, Css, D, Diff, Djangotemplate, Doxygen, Dtd, Eiffel, ... }}} -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8928 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler