[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#927369: network-manager: The NetworkManager process continues to consume increasing amounts of memory on a dhcp client events

[Michael Biebl]

Control: fixed -1 1.8.0-1

On Thu, 18 Apr 2019 10:34:42 -0400 Artem Panfilov
<panfilov.artyom at gmail.com> wrote:
> Package: network-manager
> Version: 1.6.2-3+deb9u2
> Severity: important
> Tags: patch
> 
> Description of problem: NetworkManager is consuming hugh memory when dhclient
> invoke nm-dhcp-wrapper.
> 
> How to reproduce:
> To repoduce the issue you have to call a dhclient in the loop to simulate dhcp
> events:
> dhclient -q -sf /usr/lib/NetworkManager/nm-dhcp-helper -pf
> /var/run/<dhclient.pid> -lf /var/lib/NetworkManager/<dhclient.lease>
> 
> Actual results:
> The amount of memory consumed by NetworkManager increases during a short period
> of time during handling dhcp events by NetworkManager.
> 
> Expected results:
> Memory usage of NetworkManager should not increased on dhcp events.
> 
> Red Hat bugzilla report:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1496204
> 
> Upstream patch:
> https://github.com/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/commit/44cbd3b036411c8b49bc2d34d4602fdc47d4921a#diff-f3e26d982a3f07282c78f0784c9955ab
> 

Thanks for the detailed bug report.
Both versions in unstable/buster and experimental are not affected as
they carry the above upstream commit, so marking the fixed version
accordingly.

In case we make another stretch stable release, I will take this patches
into consideration. Whether we make another stable upload for
network-manager is not decided yet.

Regards,
Michael

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