Subject: Re: bug#748: nfs-ganesha: ganesha has a memory leak

From: Mark Hindley <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2023 08:57:49 +0000

Control: tags -1 debian
Control: fixed -1 4.0.12-3~bpo11+1

Bodo,

On Wed, Mar 08, 2023 at 01:10:40AM +0100, Bodo Eggert wrote:
> Package: nfs-ganesha
> Version: 3.4-1
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> the shipped version of ganesha, version 3.4, does have a memory leak that
> causes it to consume all available RAM and more.  I have 4 GB installed, but
> yesterday ganesha did use about 6 GB and each stat() required swapping.

This is not a forked package in Devuan and we use Debian's packages directly
without recompilation. Please report this to Debian's BTS to be addressed.

If you think 4.x series will fix it, you might be interested in the stable-bpo
version 4.0.12-3~bpo11+1.

Mark