Bug#1024532: gjs allocates 237 GB of RAM during build (!)

[Santiago Vila]

El 22/11/22 a las 0:40, Jeremy Bicha escribió:
> On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 7:54 AM Santiago Vila <sanvila at debian.org> wrote:
>> Not exactly. As explained, I am intentionally measuring the allocated
>> memory as a completely safe upper bound for the required memory, and I
>> am aware that they are not the same. Nevertheless, I try to report
>> anomalies like this one when I find them.
> 
> Another example is webkitgtk. It uses overcommit as a security feature
> codenamed Gigacage. The webkitgtk maintainers would close this kind of
> bug as NOTABUG. Perhaps, gjs is doing something similar.
> 
> https://blogs.gnome.org/mcatanzaro/2018/11/02/on-webkit-build-options-also-how-to-accidentally-disable-important-security-features/

No. The most memory consuming webkit package in Debian allocates 6 GB or 
7 GB of RAM during build. Compared with 237 GB, it's not similar.

Thanks.