bug#58631: [Shepherd] Indefinite heap growth (memory leak)

[Joshua Branson]

Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

> Indeed, the core dump weighs 13 GiB, so it looks like a memory leak (too
> bad ‘info proc stat’ in GDB doesn’t work).
>
> I have not observed it on any other machine.  The difference between
> berlin and machines I have access to is that berlin is being hammered on
> port 22, which means it gets to spawn sshd processes very often.  This
> could be where the leak is.
>

So, this is a hack, but perhaps berlin could start to use endlessh on
port 22, and then the real ssh port could be on another standard port.

https://issues.guix.gnu.org/39136

It would change most guix developers work loads.  But it's a thought.  :)

> Ludo’.