amule memory usage increases to 100% and makes the whole system unusable

[Jean-Peer Lorenz]

Binary package hint: amule

After wakeup from standby amule memory usage increases to 100% of my 4GB RAM very fast. The harddisk starts hard working (swap) and the whole system becomes unusable.

What I did:

* selected Standby to pause the machine over night
* wake up the machine next morning
-> wondered whats going on with the harddisk

Don't know if this is reproducable: I'm not keen on crashing my production system.

Description: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS
Release: 10.04

amule:
  Installed: 2.2.6+debian0-7
  Candidate: 2.2.6+debian0-7
  Version table:
 *** 2.2.6+debian0-7 0

libwxgtk2.8-0:
  Installed: 2.8.10.1-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 2.8.10.1-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 2.8.10.1-0ubuntu1 0

[Ohad (ohadle)]

This happened to me twice so far. I do not use standby mode (this is a desktop), this happens just after a while of running the program.

[arr (alan-drop-share)]

This happens with me at least once a day.

[shankao (shankao)]

Thank you for your bug report. This bug has been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments at: http://bugs.amule.org/view.php?id=1532

[shankao (shankao)]

Confirmed after reporters comments (plus reports in upstream bugtracker)

[Christian Castelli (voodoo81people)]

Also affects aMule AdunanzA 2010.1 in 10.10. No stand-by problems, I simply started the app, then after downloading very fast a couple of files, CPU went to 100%.

[Zane (zanetu)]

Same problem on 64-bit Kubuntu 10.10. Disconnecting network and getting reconnected later sometimes results in the same problem.

[tx (372046933-qq)]

I can confirm that it happened at most 1 hour once. It exhaust almost 4GB memory and can hardly be killed because the system's response at the precise moment is astoundingly slow.
kernel info: Linux ASUS 2.6.32-31-generic #61-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 8 18:25:51 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[Selmi (selmi)]

it happens also in oneiric, i run it in kde
but it doesn't happen all the time, sometimes i have it running for hours, sometimes it happens in 15-20 minutes. i guess it may depend on count of files, connections or something like that