Bug 253517

Summary: kio_http webdavs eats tons of RAM while copying large files to destination
Product: [Frameworks and Libraries] kio Reporter: Diego <diego.ml>
Component: webdavAssignee: kdelibs bugs <kdelibs-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal CC: adawit
Priority: NOR    
Version: 4.4   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Fedora RPMs   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:
Attachments: HTop showing the huge RAM usage of kio_http webdav

Description Diego 2010-10-07 16:37:22 UTC
Created attachment 52316 [details]
HTop showing the huge RAM usage of kio_http webdav

Version:           4.4 (using KDE 4.4.5) 
OS:                Linux

I was copying a big file (1.3 GiB) from local filesystem to a local webdavs server through a gigabit connections when it started eating all my RAM. (More than 4GiBs!!)

Reproducible: Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
Copy with dolphin a big file from local fs to a webdavs.

Actual Results:  
The transfer occupies all of your RAM rapidly and the system becomes almost unresponsive.

Expected Results:  
Trasfer occupies part of the RAM as buffers, but the system doesn't starts swapping tremendously.

Local PC:
- encrypted filesystem;
- single big file (1.3GiB ISO image);
- dual core with 4GiBs RAM and 4GiBs swap.

Medium:
- gigabit ethernet;

Destination server:
- alfresco webdavs (webdav through secure connection);
- quad core Opteron.

I don't think the problem is all the rest: copying the same file to the same server through ssh (fish protocol) occupies the RAM but just as buffer, and does not swap at all.
Comment 1 Dawit Alemayehu 2011-03-23 19:54:16 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 34578 ***