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bug #23023: cp -r use a lot of memory, feature or memory leak?

Submitter:  Matteo Boccafoli <matteo>
Submitted:  Tue 22 Apr 2008 08:13:06 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  None Severity:  3 - Normal
Item Group:  None Status:  Confirmed
Privacy:  Public Assigned to:  None
Open/Closed:  Open

Fri 02 May 2008 07:34:58 AM UTC, comment #2: 
Jim Meyering <meyering>
Group administrator
Thu 01 May 2008 04:02:22 PM UTC, comment #1: 

As suggest from Jim Meyering, I attach valgrind output using
$ ./valgrind  --tool=massif /bin/cp -r /dev/shm/1/ /dev/shm/c

$ cp --version
cp (GNU coreutils) 5.97

(file #15577, file #15578, file #15579, file #15580)

Matteo Boccafoli <matteo>
Tue 22 Apr 2008 08:13:06 PM UTC, original submission:  

# 21000 dir in 1.tar.bz2
$ cd /dev/shm
/dev/shm$ time tar -xjf 1.tar.bz2

real    0m8.403s
user    0m3.188s
sys     0m5.196s

/dev/shm$ time ./busybox cp -r /dev/shm/1/ /dev/shm/b
real    0m54.421s
user    0m0.832s
sys     0m51.751s
# [time t_1,t_2 : t_1<t_2 and cp.memory(t_1)==cp.memory(t_2)]

/dev/shm$ time /bin/cp -r /dev/shm/1/ /dev/shm/c
real    0m55.696s
user    0m2.680s
sys     0m50.447s
#[time t_1,t_2 : t_1<t_2 and cp.memory(t_1)<cp.memory(t_2)]
# using a lot of memory (max 54 MB of RAM)

Is it a feature or memory leak?

Matteo Boccafoli <matteo>

 

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Attached Files
file #15578:  ms_print.txt.gz added by matteo (46KiB - application/x-gzip)
file #15579:  massif.4613.txt added by matteo (2KiB - text/plain)
file #15580:  massif.4613.ps added by matteo (54KiB - application/postscript)
file #15577:  massif.out.15750.gz added by matteo (27KiB - application/x-gzip)
file #15507:  1.tar.bz2 added by matteo (174KiB - application/bzip2 - 21000 dir)

 

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    Date Changed by Updated Field Previous Value => Replaced by
    2008-05-02 meyering StatusNone Confirmed
    2008-05-02 meyering PrivacyPrivate Public
    2008-05-01 matteo Attached File- Added massif.out.15750.gz, #15577
        Attached File- Added ms_print.txt.gz, #15578
        Attached File- Added massif.4613.txt, #15579
        Attached File- Added massif.4613.ps, #15580
    2008-04-22 matteo Attached File- Added 1.tar.bz2, #15507

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