GNU bug report logs - #38887
sassc has a memory leak

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Jesse Gibbons <jgibbons2357 <at> gmail.com>

Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2020 04:49:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me <at> tobias.gr>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Jesse Gibbons <jgibbons2357 <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 38887 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#38887: sassc has a memory leak
Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2020 06:50:39 -0700

Somehow this sent without the details I typed out. Sorry for that...

When I try to build arc-theme and leave it to run, the entire system
eventually freezes. When I monitor how much memory it takes, I see that
it spawns a sassc process that eventually takes all 30 GB of the RAM
not taken by GNOME and the other services. 

When I sent the initial bug report, I found an upstream github issue
that this could be related to, but I lost it.

What should be done? If someone tries to build arc-theme or other
packages that use sassc without a timeout, their system will probably
crash from memory usage.

-Jesse
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