[DRE-maint] Bug#778303: chef: Memory leak

[Antonio Terceiro]

Hello Piotr, thanks for reporting.

On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 12:37:19PM +0100, Piotr Panczyk wrote:
> Package: chef
> Version: 10.12.0-3
> Severity: important
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> Chef Client causes memory leak when run as a daemon. Just after start,
> the process uses about 30 MB of RAM. Then this amount rises with each
> client run. After a week (before logrotate restarts the daemon), the
> usage is at about 500 MB. The exact value depends on cookbooks/recipies
> used on the node.
> 
> As I know, the problem was fixed in Chef Client version 10.14 by
> introducing forking for each client run.

Would you by any chance be able to identify the upstream commit that
introduced the fix? If so, I can try backporting that and releasing a
stable update.

-- 
Antonio Terceiro <terceiro at debian.org>
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