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* bug#70223: Search for empty string uses excessive memory
@ 2024-04-05 20:16 Athena Martin via Bug reports for GNU Guix
  2024-04-06  1:13 ` Richard Sent
  2024-04-30 17:46 ` bug#70223: I haven't been able to trigger this bug Dale Mellor
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Athena Martin via Bug reports for GNU Guix @ 2024-04-05 20:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 70223

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I ran

  $ guix system search ""

A minute later, my desktop froze. I did it again with htop running and
saw that memory usage climbed right up to the full 32GiB in my
(swapless) machine. Right as it reached that point, the freeze recurred.

I haven't tested but it seems likely this same issue would occur with
guix search and guix home search as well. The best fix I can think of
is to refuse to search for an empty string without --force.

I looked for the following on issues.guix and found no existing bug:

empty string
empty search
guix search
system search
home search
service search
package search
""
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* bug#70223: Search for empty string uses excessive memory
  2024-04-05 20:16 bug#70223: Search for empty string uses excessive memory Athena Martin via Bug reports for GNU Guix
@ 2024-04-06  1:13 ` Richard Sent
  2024-04-30 17:46 ` bug#70223: I haven't been able to trigger this bug Dale Mellor
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Richard Sent @ 2024-04-06  1:13 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Athena Martin; +Cc: 70223

Patch submitted at https://issues.guix.gnu.org/70226.

-- 
Take it easy,
Richard Sent
Making my computer weirder one commit at a time.




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* bug#70223: I haven't been able to trigger this bug
  2024-04-05 20:16 bug#70223: Search for empty string uses excessive memory Athena Martin via Bug reports for GNU Guix
  2024-04-06  1:13 ` Richard Sent
@ 2024-04-30 17:46 ` Dale Mellor
  2024-04-30 17:55   ` bug#70223: Scratch: " Dale Mellor
  1 sibling, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Dale Mellor @ 2024-04-30 17:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 70223

Can you give a command-line use-case which actually triggers this bug?

Thanks.





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* bug#70223: Scratch: Re: I haven't been able to trigger this bug
  2024-04-30 17:46 ` bug#70223: I haven't been able to trigger this bug Dale Mellor
@ 2024-04-30 17:55   ` Dale Mellor
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Dale Mellor @ 2024-04-30 17:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 70223

Sorry, sent to wrong bug.




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