Bug 691046

Summary:	Memory handling problem when resolution too high
Product:	Ghostscript	Reporter:	Tim Waugh <twaugh>
Component:	CUPS driver	Assignee:	Marcos H. Woehrmann <marcos.woehrmann>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	till.kamppeter
Priority:	P4
Version:	8.70
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
Customer:		Word Size:	---

Description Tim Waugh 2010-01-05 08:42:55 UTC

With ghostscript-8.70 on Fedora 12, gs crashes while reclaiming memory after
gdevcups tries to allocate a very large buffer.

For instructions on how to reproduce this problem:
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=549901#c7

I haven't been able to figure out quite where the problem comes from.

Comment 1 Ray Johnston 2010-01-07 10:20:31 UTC

Marcos will try and reproduce.

Comment 2 Tim Waugh 2010-03-23 11:30:12 UTC

Setting the RIP_MAX_CACHE environment variable to "128m" works around the problem because the buffer allocation then succeeds.

So it's something to do with when allocations fail due to the space_params having been exceeded.

Comment 3 Till Kamppeter 2010-08-12 19:03:03 UTC

From the Ghostscript side already fixed in SVN rev 11547. But see my comments in

http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=691499

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 691499 ***