[MacPorts] #47374: unison freezes entire machine

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#47374: unison freezes entire machine
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  Reporter:  geezel@…  |      Owner:  macports-tickets@…
      Type:  defect    |     Status:  new
  Priority:  Normal    |  Milestone:
 Component:  ports     |    Version:  2.3.3
Resolution:            |   Keywords:
      Port:  unison    |
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Changes (by mf2k@…):

 * keywords:  freeze =>


Old description:

> Running unison on a single folder with only a few (about 50) large files
> freezes the entire machine.
> Unison itself does not crash or display an error message, but it consumes
> more and more memory until
> the machine reboots. Other processes also become unresponsive, i.e. once
> the unison command
> is launched there is no way to recover.
>
> For reasons discussed in this ticket
> https://trac.macports.org/ticket/45621 this has been tested
> with various versions (unison 2.40.102 compiled against ocaml 4.01 and
> 4.02, and unison 2.48.3
> against ocaml 4.01). They all exhibit the same behaviour.
>
> Unison on FreeBSD runs fine on the same set of files (all versions).
> Also, a temporary workaround on
> Mac OS X is to run unison with the option "copythreshold = 1024", which
> makes unison use rsync
> to transfer large files.
>
> This might well be an upstream bug. If anybody is able to confirm this
> behaviour I'd be willing to report
> it upstream.

New description:

 Running unison on a single folder with only a few (about 50) large files
 freezes the entire machine.
 Unison itself does not crash or display an error message, but it consumes
 more and more memory until
 the machine reboots. Other processes also become unresponsive, i.e. once
 the unison command
 is launched there is no way to recover.

 For reasons discussed in this ticket ticket:45621 this has been tested
 with various versions (unison 2.40.102 compiled against ocaml 4.01 and
 4.02, and unison 2.48.3
 against ocaml 4.01). They all exhibit the same behaviour.

 Unison on FreeBSD runs fine on the same set of files (all versions). Also,
 a temporary workaround on
 Mac OS X is to run unison with the option "copythreshold = 1024", which
 makes unison use rsync
 to transfer large files.

 This might well be an upstream bug. If anybody is able to confirm this
 behaviour I'd be willing to report
 it upstream.

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