Pan crashes when retrieving 4.3 billion articles from usenet

Bug #18395 reported by Ramon de Ruiter
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pan (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Summary says it al, even though i know it's a bit much.
Still it shouldn't happen.

I use an up-to-date Hoary system. My PC is a AMD 2500+ with 512mb DDR and 512mb
swap.

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Ramon de Ruiter (won) wrote :

Oh with crash i mean it get's killed for eating all my memory.
relevant dmesg output:

oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x1d2
DMA per-cpu:
cpu 0 hot: low 2, high 6, batch 1
cpu 0 cold: low 0, high 2, batch 1
Normal per-cpu:
cpu 0 hot: low 32, high 96, batch 16
cpu 0 cold: low 0, high 32, batch 16
HighMem per-cpu: empty

Free pages: 3048kB (0kB HighMem)
Active:57552 inactive:61523 dirty:0 writeback:0 unstable:0 free:762 slab:4195
mapped:118383 pagetables:1183
DMA free:88kB min:88kB low:108kB high:132kB active:6400kB inactive:6176kB
present:16384kB pages_scanned:15833 all_unreclaimable? yes
protections[]: 0 0 0
Normal free:2960kB min:2804kB low:3504kB high:4204kB active:223808kB
inactive:239916kB present:507840kB pages_scanned:74048 all_unreclaimable? no
protections[]: 0 0 0
HighMem free:0kB min:128kB low:160kB high:192kB active:0kB inactive:0kB
present:0kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no
protections[]: 0 0 0
DMA: 0*4kB 1*8kB 1*16kB 0*32kB 1*64kB 0*128kB 0*256kB 0*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB
0*4096kB = 88kB
Normal: 44*4kB 4*8kB 2*16kB 1*32kB 2*64kB 0*128kB 2*256kB 0*512kB 0*1024kB
1*2048kB 0*4096kB = 2960kB
HighMem: empty
Swap cache: add 385303, delete 385303, find 22798/39390, race 0+19
Out of Memory: Killed process 27489 (pan).

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Ramon de Ruiter (won) wrote :

I don't use pan or usenet anymore plus there's a very slim chance this will ever
be fixed...
I'll close it myself then.

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