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FS#2734 - Opkg update fails although router has enough memory #7541

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openwrt-bot opened this issue Jan 14, 2020 · 18 comments
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FS#2734 - Opkg update fails although router has enough memory #7541

openwrt-bot opened this issue Jan 14, 2020 · 18 comments
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jch:

19.07.0 running on WNDR3700v2, 32MB of memory. The machine is certainly not short on memory:

              total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:          59560       26912       24108         956        8540       16564
Swap:             0           0           0

Running "opkg update" a first time works fine. However, if I run "opkg update" a second time, it reports:

Collected errors:
 * pkg_hash_add_from_file: Failed to open /var/opkg-lists/openwrt_routing: Out of memory.

After doing "rm /var/opkg-lists/openwrt_*", everything works fine again.

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jch:

Strace indicates that it's fork that fails:

pipe([4, 5])                            = 4
fork()                                  = -1 ENOMEM (Out of memory)

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jch:

Enabling memory overcommit (which I'm not recommending should be the default) successfully works around the issue:

sysctl -w vm.overcommit_memory=1

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jow-:

I don't see a solution to this. Opkg was already heavily patched and modified to use less RAM, even introducing a rather slow multi-pass list parsing algorithm to avoid keeping the entire dependency graph in memory. The lists are just big and keep growing, so devices with 64MB RAM and lower are nearing the end of their usefulness.

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DonkZZZ:

Same issue here with a x86-64 image in Virtualbox with 128MB Ram

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jch:

Jo-Philipp, may I suggest that you reopen this report? Just because we don't see a solution yet doesn't mean the bug should be closed.

There are two points I'd like to add.

First of all, "opkg install" and "opkg list-installable" work while "opkg update" fail. Is opkg perhaps keeping two copies (the old and the new one) in memory at the same time?

Second, the failure is not due to lack of memory -- it is due to fork failing due to the large amount of writeable pages. To me, this implies that either opkg should avoid forking (by linking with libz instead of running gzip -- see gzip_fdopen in libbb/gzip.c), or fork before it allocates the data structures (and keep the pipe around for later usage), or use a custom memory allocator that marks the pages as unwriteable using mprotect.

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jow-:

Sure, will reopen it if you prefer.

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jch:

There might be a memory leak.

A first run of opkg update indicates all memory has been freed; running it a second time, though, indicates a leak of almost 4MB:

==6835==
==6835== HEAP SUMMARY:
==6835==     in use at exit: 3,674,125 bytes in 71,915 blocks
==6835==   total heap usage: 164,305 allocs, 92,390 frees, 27,717,132 bytes allo  cated
==6835==
==6835== 920 (144 direct, 776 indirect) bytes in 9 blocks are definitely lost in   loss record 5 of 19
==6835==    at 0x483577F: malloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:309)
==6835==    by 0x122C91: xmalloc (xfuncs.c:30)
==6835==    by 0x11C0BA: parse_alternatives (pkg_parse.c:185)
==6835==    by 0x11C0BA: pkg_parse_line (pkg_parse.c:212)
==6835==    by 0x11E4BE: parse_from_stream_nomalloc (parse_util.c:162)
==6835==    by 0x11B86C: pkg_hash_add_from_file (pkg_hash.c:126)
==6835==    by 0x11BAC9: pkg_hash_load_feeds (pkg_hash.c:196)
==6835==    by 0x10FDBF: main (opkg-cl.c:433)
==6835==
==6835== 1,144 bytes in 47 blocks are definitely lost in loss record 6 of 19
==6835==    at 0x4837D7B: realloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:836)
==6835==    by 0x119D7F: parse_providelist (pkg_depends.c:629)
==6835==    by 0x11C4CD: pkg_parse_line (pkg_parse.c:296)
==6835==    by 0x11E4BE: parse_from_stream_nomalloc (parse_util.c:162)
==6835==    by 0x11B86C: pkg_hash_add_from_file (pkg_hash.c:126)
==6835==    by 0x11BAC9: pkg_hash_load_feeds (pkg_hash.c:196)
==6835==    by 0x10FDBF: main (opkg-cl.c:433)
==6835==
==6835== 31,056 (15,264 direct, 15,792 indirect) bytes in 477 blocks are definitely lost in loss record 11 of 19
==6835==    at 0x48356AF: malloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:308)
==6835==    by 0x4837DE7: realloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:836)
==6835==    by 0x11A069: parse_deplist (pkg_depends.c:816)
==6835==    by 0x11C705: pkg_parse_line (pkg_parse.c:321)
==6835==    by 0x11E4BE: parse_from_stream_nomalloc (parse_util.c:162)
==6835==    by 0x11B86C: pkg_hash_add_from_file (pkg_hash.c:126)
==6835==    by 0x11BAC9: pkg_hash_load_feeds (pkg_hash.c:196)
==6835==    by 0x10FDBF: main (opkg-cl.c:433)
==6835==
==6835== 792,670 (306,096 direct, 486,574 indirect) bytes in 4,057 blocks are definitely lost in loss record 17 of 19
==6835==    at 0x4837D7B: realloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:836)
==6835==    by 0x11A069: parse_deplist (pkg_depends.c:816)
==6835==    by 0x11C705: pkg_parse_line (pkg_parse.c:321)
==6835==    by 0x11E4BE: parse_from_stream_nomalloc (parse_util.c:162)
==6835==    by 0x11B86C: pkg_hash_add_from_file (pkg_hash.c:126)
==6835==    by 0x11BAC9: pkg_hash_load_feeds (pkg_hash.c:196)
==6835==    by 0x10FDBF: main (opkg-cl.c:433)
==6835==
==6835== 2,848,303 (599,456 direct, 2,248,847 indirect) bytes in 6,812 blocks are definitely lost in loss record 19 of 19
==6835==    at 0x4837B65: calloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:762)
==6835==    by 0x122D20: xcalloc (xfuncs.c:46)
==6835==    by 0x116B77: pkg_new (pkg.c:95)
==6835==    by 0x11B81E: pkg_hash_add_from_file (pkg_hash.c:121)
==6835==    by 0x11BAC9: pkg_hash_load_feeds (pkg_hash.c:196)
==6835==    by 0x10FDBF: main (opkg-cl.c:433)
==6835==
==6835== LEAK SUMMARY:
==6835==    definitely lost: 922,104 bytes in 11,402 blocks
==6835==    indirectly lost: 2,751,989 bytes in 60,511 blocks
==6835==      possibly lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
==6835==    still reachable: 32 bytes in 2 blocks
==6835==         suppressed: 0 bytes in 0 blocks

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TmorKax:

Have the same problem. Only with Asus RT-N11P. Only with 19.07.X. 18.06 not affected.

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fnarfbargle:

Can confirm this on an WNDR3700v1 with 19.07.01

root@Baravan:# free
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 59372 25364 26264 1196 7744 18100
Swap: 0 0 0
root@Baravan:
# opkg update
Collected errors:

  • pkg_hash_add_from_file: Failed to open /var/opkg-lists/openwrt_routing: Out of memory.
So 26M free. Not like it's out of memory. The contents of /var/opkg-lists decompressed totals some 3.6M :

root@Baravan:/tmp/opkg-lists# rm *,sig ; for i in * ; do cat $i | gzip -d > $i.raw ; done
root@Baravan:/tmp/opkg-lists# du -hcs *.raw
200.0K openwrt_base.raw
352.0K openwrt_core.raw
804.0K openwrt_luci.raw
1.9M openwrt_packages.raw
48.0K openwrt_routing.raw
328.0K openwrt_telephony.raw
3.6M total

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dark-penguin:

If you are running "opkg update" for the first time, or if you delete /tmp/opkg-* , then it runs fine with only 2 Mb (or even less - I did not try beyond that). If there are already lists downloaded, then apparently no amount of memory will be enough (10M is certainly not enough). (We could just make it ignore previously downloaded lists, and that will fix it...)

"opkg list" should only list the names and not do anything more complex. It also runs fine when there are no downloaded lists; that could be attributed to having less text to display, but 10M being not enough to just display some text without any checking? That's unlikely.

Confirmed on:
Mikrotik RB941-2nD (Atheros QCA9531), both 19.07.2 and 18.06.8 (except on 18.06.8, "opkg update" worked multiple times, but not "opkg list")
TP-Link TL-WR940N v6 (Atheros TP9343), 18.06.8

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NelsonK.:

19.07.3 not fix this problem on Asus RT-N11P. Bug still there. Still "Out of memory" when opkg list-upgradable. Please pay attention to the one who leads MT7620N.

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dwardo:

19.07.3 has brought progress on my TP-Link re450v1 : No more Out of memory with opkg update

However as stated in the previous post, opkg list-upgradable fails with Out of memory
root@re450:~# opkg list-upgradable
Collected errors:

  • pkg_hash_add_from_file: Failed to open /var/opkg-lists/openwrt_routing: Out of memory.

strace shows :
--- SIGCHLD {si_signo=SIGCHLD, si_code=CLD_EXITED, si_pid=14609, si_uid=0, si_status=0, si_utime=19, si_stime=49} ---
wait4(14609, [{WIFEXITED(s) && WEXITSTATUS(s) == 0}], 0, NULL) = 14609
rt_sigaction(SIGPIPE, {sa_handler=SIG_DFL, sa_mask=[RT_68 RT_70 RT_71 RT_73 RT_74 RT_75 RT_77 RT_79 RT_81 RT_82 RT_83 RT_84 RT_86 RT_87 RT_88 RT_89 RT_90 RT_91 RT_93 RT_94 RT_95], sa_flags=SA_RESTORER, sa_restorer=NULL}, NULL, 16) = 0
stat64("/var/opkg-lists/openwrt_routing", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=11492, ...}) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGPIPE, {sa_handler=SIG_IGN, sa_mask=[RT_68 RT_70 RT_71 RT_73 RT_74 RT_75 RT_77 RT_79 RT_81 RT_82 RT_83 RT_84 RT_86 RT_87 RT_88 RT_89 RT_90 RT_91 RT_93 RT_94 RT_95], sa_flags=SA_RESTORER, sa_restorer=NULL}, {sa_handler=SIG_DFL, sa_mask=[RT_72 RT_73 RT_74 RT_77 RT_79 RT_80 RT_83 RT_85 RT_86 RT_87 RT_88 RT_89 RT_90 RT_91 RT_93 RT_94 RT_95], sa_flags=SA_RESTORER, sa_restorer=NULL}, 16) = 0
pipe([4, 5]) = 4
fork() = -1 ENOMEM (Out of memory)
open("/tmp/opkg-BKcjeL", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE|O_CLOEXEC|O_DIRECTORY) = 6
fcntl64(6, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0
fchdir(6) = 0
getdents64(6, /* 2 entries /, 2048) = 48
getdents64(6, /
0 entries */, 2048) = 0
chdir("..") = 0
rmdir("/tmp/opkg-BKcjeL") = 0
close(6) = 0
fcntl64(3, F_SETLK64, {l_type=F_UNLCK, l_whence=SEEK_CUR, l_start=0, l_len=0}) = 0
close(3) = 0
unlink("/var/lock/opkg.lock") = 0
writev(2, [{iov_base="", iov_len=0}, {iov_base="Collected errors:\n", iov_len=18}], 2Collected errors:
) = 18
writev(2, [{iov_base=" * ", iov_len=3}, {iov_base="pkg_hash_add_from_file: Failed t"..., iov_len=87}], 2 * pkg_hash_add_from_file: Failed to open /var/opkg-lists/openwrt_routing: Out of memory.
) = 90
writev(2, [{iov_base="", iov_len=0}, {iov_base=NULL, iov_len=0}], 2) = 0
exit_group(-1) = ?
+++ exited with 255 +++

whereas
root@re450:# ls -lrt /var/opkg-lists/openwrt_routing
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11492 Jun 7 19:03 /var/opkg-lists/openwrt_routing

and
root@re450:# free
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 59640 32064 23696 1104 3880 13232
Swap: 0 0 0

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karkarus50:

19.07.4 and ASUS RT-N11P.
"Out of memory" after opkg list-upgradable in terminal.

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bjonglez:

To get an idea of memory usage, run opkg with "time -v". Then look at "Maximum resident set size". That being said, I don't know if it accounts for forked processes.

Here is memory usage with 19.07.4 on a TL-WDR4300 v1 (ath79):

First ''opkg update'' takes 3.76 MB

Second ''opkg update'' takes 3.76 MB

''opkg list'' takes 14.6 MB

''opkg list-upgradable'' takes 56.3 MB

''opkg list-installed'' takes 3.76 MB

So, jow's optimizations are quite good at reducing memory usage for ''update'' and ''list''. Since ''list-upgradable'' has not been changed recently, it's not surprising it still takes a large amount of memory.

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RipperSoS:

It's already been nine months since 19.07.0 was released. You have not done ANYTHING to fix the problem. Moreover, you have already started to drop support for 18.06, where this problem does not exist. When you completely stop supporting 18.06 what do we do then? Throw out fully working routers or become part of some kind of botnet network, without security updates? You understand that most people use budget models of routers with OpenWRT? Then why are you better than those technology companies that produce these routers and drop their support in 1.5-2 years? In some countries, people have wages of $ 100-200 per month (sometimes less) and they do not have money for good routers.

PS: Have you ever wondered why "free" operating systems have a market share within one percent? That's because of these things. Due to the large number of small and huge bugs in these OS. You have a huge list of supported devices. But how many routers on this list actually work without any bugs?

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rrblocker:

On D-Link DIR-869 with 19.07.5 same "Out of memory" after opkg list-upgradable in terminal. Opkg update works fine.

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kousu:

I'm seeing this too on on Archer C50 v4 (https://openwrt.org/toh/hwdata/tp-link/tp-link_archer_c50_v4), but only on list-upgradable. I can run update as many times as I want, but I actually getting updates done.

Weirdly, the luci interface doesn't seem to have a problem listing upgradable packages.

This router was manufactured just last year. Though it's not a 16/128 device like [[https://openwrt.org/toh/views/toh_available_16128|recommended]], neither is it a [[https://openwrt.org/supported_devices/openwrt_on_432_devices|banned 4/32]]. It's in the middle: a 8/64, and that's supposed to be powerful enough.

I'm running LuCI openwrt-19.07 branch (git-20.272.48698-9883bb3) / OpenWrt 19.07.4 r11208-ce6496d796.

I tried running Baptiste's experiment:

Summary:

opkg update: 6.7MB
opkg list: 14MB
opkg list-upgradable: 44 - 50 MB (and then a crash)
opkg list-installed: 3.8MB
opkg upgrade: 49MB (and then a crash); presumably this is calling list-upgradable internally?

root@router:# time -v opkg update >/dev/null
Command being timed: "opkg update"
User time (seconds): 3.83
System time (seconds): 0.86
Percent of CPU this job got: 42%
Elapsed (wall clock) time (h:mm:ss or m:ss): 0m 10.98s
Average shared text size (kbytes): 0
Average unshared data size (kbytes): 0
Average stack size (kbytes): 0
Average total size (kbytes): 0
Maximum resident set size (kbytes): 6736
Average resident set size (kbytes): 0
Major (requiring I/O) page faults: 0
Minor (reclaiming a frame) page faults: 4355
Voluntary context switches: 1032
Involuntary context switches: 1636
Swaps: 0
File system inputs: 0
File system outputs: 0
Socket messages sent: 0
Socket messages received: 0
Signals delivered: 0
Page size (bytes): 4096
Exit status: 0
root@router:
# time -v opkg update >/dev/null
Command being timed: "opkg update"
User time (seconds): 4.01
System time (seconds): 0.62
Percent of CPU this job got: 43%
Elapsed (wall clock) time (h:mm:ss or m:ss): 0m 10.73s
Average shared text size (kbytes): 0
Average unshared data size (kbytes): 0
Average stack size (kbytes): 0
Average total size (kbytes): 0
Maximum resident set size (kbytes): 6736
Average resident set size (kbytes): 0
Major (requiring I/O) page faults: 0
Minor (reclaiming a frame) page faults: 4365
Voluntary context switches: 1026
Involuntary context switches: 1539
Swaps: 0
File system inputs: 0
File system outputs: 0
Socket messages sent: 0
Socket messages received: 0
Signals delivered: 0
Page size (bytes): 4096
Exit status: 0
root@router:# time -v opkg list >/dev/null
Command being timed: "opkg list"
User time (seconds): 2.15
System time (seconds): 0.15
Percent of CPU this job got: 94%
Elapsed (wall clock) time (h:mm:ss or m:ss): 0m 2.43s
Average shared text size (kbytes): 0
Average unshared data size (kbytes): 0
Average stack size (kbytes): 0
Average total size (kbytes): 0
Maximum resident set size (kbytes): 13936
Average resident set size (kbytes): 0
Major (requiring I/O) page faults: 0
Minor (reclaiming a frame) page faults: 1947
Voluntary context switches: 584
Involuntary context switches: 937
Swaps: 0
File system inputs: 0
File system outputs: 0
Socket messages sent: 0
Socket messages received: 0
Signals delivered: 0
Page size (bytes): 4096
Exit status: 0
root@router:
# time -v opkg list-upgradable # not >/dev/null because this errors and print the error to stdout
Collected errors:

  • pkg_hash_add_from_file: Failed to open /var/opkg-lists/openwrt_telephony: Out of memory.
    Command being timed: "opkg list-upgradable"
    User time (seconds): 3.32
    System time (seconds): 0.35
    Percent of CPU this job got: 96%
    Elapsed (wall clock) time (h:mm:ss or m:ss): 0m 3.80s
    Average shared text size (kbytes): 0
    Average unshared data size (kbytes): 0
    Average stack size (kbytes): 0
    Average total size (kbytes): 0
    Maximum resident set size (kbytes): 50176
    Average resident set size (kbytes): 0
    Major (requiring I/O) page faults: 0
    Minor (reclaiming a frame) page faults: 6698
    Voluntary context switches: 732
    Involuntary context switches: 1351
    Swaps: 0
    File system inputs: 0
    File system outputs: 0
    Socket messages sent: 0
    Socket messages received: 0
    Signals delivered: 0
    Page size (bytes): 4096
    Exit status: 0
    root@router:~# time -v opkg list-upgradable
    Collected errors:
  • pkg_hash_add_from_file: Failed to open /var/opkg-lists/openwrt_telephony: Out of memory.
    Command exited with non-zero status 255
    Command being timed: "opkg list-upgradable"
    User time (seconds): 2.80
    System time (seconds): 0.28
    Percent of CPU this job got: 81%
    Elapsed (wall clock) time (h:mm:ss or m:ss): 0m 3.78s
    Average shared text size (kbytes): 0
    Average unshared data size (kbytes): 0
    Average stack size (kbytes): 0
    Average total size (kbytes): 0
    Maximum resident set size (kbytes): 44288
    Average resident set size (kbytes): 0
    Major (requiring I/O) page faults: 0
    Minor (reclaiming a frame) page faults: 5985
    Voluntary context switches: 664
    Involuntary context switches: 1201
    Swaps: 0
    File system inputs: 0
    File system outputs: 0
    Socket messages sent: 0
    Socket messages received: 0
    Signals delivered: 0
    Page size (bytes): 4096
    Exit status: 255
    root@router:# time -v (opkg list-upgradable | head)
    -ash: syntax error: unexpected "("
    root@router:
    # time -v opkg list-installed >/dev/null
    Command being timed: "opkg list-installed"
    User time (seconds): 0.05
    System time (seconds): 0.00
    Percent of CPU this job got: 94%
    Elapsed (wall clock) time (h:mm:ss or m:ss): 0m 0.05s
    Average shared text size (kbytes): 0
    Average unshared data size (kbytes): 0
    Average stack size (kbytes): 0
    Average total size (kbytes): 0
    Maximum resident set size (kbytes): 3872
    Average resident set size (kbytes): 0
    Major (requiring I/O) page faults: 0
    Minor (reclaiming a frame) page faults: 81
    Voluntary context switches: 1
    Involuntary context switches: 8
    Swaps: 0
    File system inputs: 0
    File system outputs: 0
    Socket messages sent: 0
    Socket messages received: 0
    Signals delivered: 0
    Page size (bytes): 4096
    Exit status: 0
    root@router:~# time -v opkg upgrade
    Collected errors:
  • pkg_hash_add_from_file: Failed to open /var/opkg-lists/openwrt_routing: Out of memory.
    Command exited with non-zero status 255
    Command being timed: "opkg upgrade"
    User time (seconds): 2.61
    System time (seconds): 0.24
    Percent of CPU this job got: 93%
    Elapsed (wall clock) time (h:mm:ss or m:ss): 0m 3.05s
    Average shared text size (kbytes): 0
    Average unshared data size (kbytes): 0
    Average stack size (kbytes): 0
    Average total size (kbytes): 0
    Maximum resident set size (kbytes): 49792
    Average resident set size (kbytes): 0
    Major (requiring I/O) page faults: 0
    Minor (reclaiming a frame) page faults: 4460
    Voluntary context switches: 640
    Involuntary context switches: 1133
    Swaps: 0
    File system inputs: 0
    File system outputs: 0
    Socket messages sent: 0
    Socket messages received: 0
    Signals delivered: 0
    Page size (bytes): 4096
    Exit status: 255

Turning on sysctl -w vm.overcommit_memory=1; allows the process to complete.

A side issue: why is opkg upgrade running list-upgradable if it's just going to stop when it notices I haven't told it what packages to upgrade?

root@router:~# sysctl -w vm.overcommit_memory=1 vm.overcommit_memory = 1 root@router:~# time -v opkg list-upgradable luci-app-statistics - git-20.348.38488-caae7ad-1 - git-20.358.74878-e019fd2-1 luci-app-opkg - git-20.272.48698-9883bb3-1 - git-20.358.74878-e019fd2-1 libuci20130104 - 2019-09-01-415f9e48-3 - 2019-09-01-415f9e48-4 luci-lib-ip - git-20.272.48698-9883bb3-1 - git-20.358.74878-e019fd2-1 luci-mod-system - git-20.272.48698-9883bb3-1 - git-20.358.74878-e019fd2-1 luci-theme-bootstrap - git-20.272.48698-9883bb3-1 - git-20.358.74878-e019fd2-1 luci-mod-status - git-20.272.48698-9883bb3-1 - git-20.358.74878-e019fd2-1 luci-lib-iptparser - git-20.348.38488-caae7ad-1 - git-20.358.74878-e019fd2-1 luci-app-firewall - git-20.272.48698-9883bb3-1 - git-20.358.74878-e019fd2-1 tcpdump - 4.9.3-1 - 4.9.3-2 uci - 2019-09-01-415f9e48-3 - 2019-09-01-415f9e48-4 luci-compat - git-20.272.48698-9883bb3-1 - git-20.358.74878-e019fd2-1 rpcd-mod-luci - 20191114 - 20201107 luci-proto-ppp - git-20.272.48698-9883bb3-1 - git-20.358.74878-e019fd2-1 luci-mod-admin-full - git-20.272.48698-9883bb3-1 - git-20.358.74878-e019fd2-1 luci-base - git-20.272.48698-9883bb3-1 - git-20.358.74878-e019fd2-1 luci-app-simple-adblock - git-20.348.38488-caae7ad-50 - git-20.358.74878-e019fd2-50 luci-proto-ipv6 - git-20.272.48698-9883bb3-1 - git-20.358.74878-e019fd2-1 uhttpd - 2020-03-13-975dce23-1 - 2020-10-01-3abcc891-1 luci-lib-nixio - git-20.272.48698-9883bb3-1 - git-20.358.74878-e019fd2-1 luci-lib-jsonc - git-20.272.48698-9883bb3-1 - git-20.358.74878-e019fd2-1 luci - git-20.272.48698-9883bb3-1 - git-20.358.74878-e019fd2-1 luci-mod-network - git-20.272.48698-9883bb3-1 - git-20.358.74878-e019fd2-1 wireless-regdb - 2019.06.03-1 - 2020.11.20-1 luci-app-openvpn - git-20.272.48698-9883bb3-1 - git-20.358.74878-e019fd2-1 Command being timed: "opkg list-upgradable" User time (seconds): 3.44 System time (seconds): 0.29 Percent of CPU this job got: 96% Elapsed (wall clock) time (h:mm:ss or m:ss): 0m 3.87s Average shared text size (kbytes): 0 Average unshared data size (kbytes): 0 Average stack size (kbytes): 0 Average total size (kbytes): 0 Maximum resident set size (kbytes): 54096 Average resident set size (kbytes): 0 Major (requiring I/O) page faults: 0 Minor (reclaiming a frame) page faults: 6994 Voluntary context switches: 729 Involuntary context switches: 1482 Swaps: 0 File system inputs: 0 File system outputs: 0 Socket messages sent: 0 Socket messages received: 0 Signals delivered: 0 Page size (bytes): 4096 Exit status: 0 root@router:~# time -v opkg upgrade opkg: the ``upgrade'' command requires at least one argument usage: opkg [options...] sub-command [arguments...] where sub-command is one of:

Package Manipulation:
update Update list of available packages
upgrade Upgrade packages
install Install package(s)
configure Configure unpacked package(s)
remove <pkgs|regexp> Remove package(s)
flag Flag package(s)
=hold|noprune|user|ok|installed|unpacked (one per invocation)

Informational Commands:
list List available packages
list-installed List installed packages
list-upgradable List installed and upgradable packages
list-changed-conffiles List user modified configuration files
files List files belonging to
search <file|regexp> List package providing
find List packages whose name or description matches
info [pkg|regexp] Display all info for
status [pkg|regexp] Display all status for
download Download to current directory
compare-versions
compare versions using <= < > >= = << >>
print-architecture List installable package architectures
depends [-A] [pkgname|pat]+
whatdepends [-A] [pkgname|pat]+
whatdependsrec [-A] [pkgname|pat]+
whatrecommends[-A] [pkgname|pat]+
whatsuggests[-A] [pkgname|pat]+
whatprovides [-A] [pkgname|pat]+
whatconflicts [-A] [pkgname|pat]+
whatreplaces [-A] [pkgname|pat]+

Options:
-A Query all packages not just those installed
-V[] Set verbosity level to .
--verbosity[=] Verbosity levels:
0 errors only
1 normal messages (default)
2 informative messages
3 debug
4 debug level 2
-f <conf_file> Use <conf_file> as the opkg configuration file
--conf <conf_file>
--cache Use a package cache
-d <dest_name> Use <dest_name> as the the root directory for
--dest <dest_name> package installation, removal, upgrading.
<dest_name> should be a defined dest name from
the configuration file, (but can also be a
directory name in a pinch).
-o

Use as the root directory for
--offline-root
offline installation of packages.
--add-arch : Register architecture with given priority
--add-dest : Register destination with given path

Force Options:
--force-depends Install/remove despite failed dependencies
--force-maintainer Overwrite preexisting config files
--force-reinstall Reinstall package(s)
--force-overwrite Overwrite files from other package(s)
--force-downgrade Allow opkg to downgrade packages
--force-space Disable free space checks
--force-postinstall Run postinstall scripts even in offline mode
--force-remove Remove package even if prerm script fails
--force-checksum Don't fail on checksum mismatches
--no-check-certificate Don't validate SSL certificates
--noaction No action -- test only
--download-only No action -- download only
--nodeps Do not follow dependencies
--nocase Perform case insensitive pattern matching
--size Print package size when listing available packages
--force-removal-of-dependent-packages
Remove package and all dependencies
--autoremove Remove packages that were installed
automatically to satisfy dependencies
-t Specify tmp-dir.
--tmp-dir Specify tmp-dir.
-l Specify lists-dir.
--lists-dir Specify lists-dir.

regexp could be something like 'pkgname*' 'file' or similar
e.g. opkg info 'libstd*' or opkg search 'libop' or opkg remove 'libncur*'
Command exited with non-zero status 1
Command being timed: "opkg upgrade"
User time (seconds): 2.91
System time (seconds): 0.25
Percent of CPU this job got: 96%
Elapsed (wall clock) time (h:mm:ss or m:ss): 0m 3.29s
Average shared text size (kbytes): 0
Average unshared data size (kbytes): 0
Average stack size (kbytes): 0
Average total size (kbytes): 0
Maximum resident set size (kbytes): 49808
Average resident set size (kbytes): 0
Major (requiring I/O) page faults: 0
Minor (reclaiming a frame) page faults: 5428
Voluntary context switches: 709
Involuntary context switches: 1378
Swaps: 0
File system inputs: 0
File system outputs: 0
Socket messages sent: 0
Socket messages received: 0
Signals delivered: 0
Page size (bytes): 4096
Exit status: 1

Trying the "rm" solution doesn't help me because it comes back as soon as re-run opkg update.

root@router:~# sysctl -w vm.overcommit_memory=0 vm.overcommit_memory = 0 root@router:~# rm /var/opkg-lists/openwrt_* root@router:~# time -v opkg list-upgradable # this suceeds, but vacuously: it just prints an empty list Command being timed: "opkg list-upgradable" User time (seconds): 0.09 System time (seconds): 0.06 Percent of CPU this job got: 94% Elapsed (wall clock) time (h:mm:ss or m:ss): 0m 0.17s Average shared text size (kbytes): 0 Average unshared data size (kbytes): 0 Average stack size (kbytes): 0 Average total size (kbytes): 0 Maximum resident set size (kbytes): 3984 Average resident set size (kbytes): 0 Major (requiring I/O) page faults: 1 Minor (reclaiming a frame) page faults: 102 Voluntary context switches: 1 Involuntary context switches: 18 Swaps: 0 File system inputs: 0 File system outputs: 0 Socket messages sent: 0 Socket messages received: 0 Signals delivered: 0 Page size (bytes): 4096 Exit status: 0 root@router:~# time -v opkg update Downloading http://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/19.07.4/targets/ramips/mt76x8/packages/Packages.gz Updated list of available packages in /var/opkg-lists/openwrt_core Downloading http://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/19.07.4/targets/ramips/mt76x8/packages/Packages.sig Signature check passed. Downloading http://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/19.07.4/packages/mipsel_24kc/base/Packages.gz Updated list of available packages in /var/opkg-lists/openwrt_base Downloading http://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/19.07.4/packages/mipsel_24kc/base/Packages.sig Signature check passed. Downloading http://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/19.07.4/packages/mipsel_24kc/luci/Packages.gz Updated list of available packages in /var/opkg-lists/openwrt_luci Downloading http://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/19.07.4/packages/mipsel_24kc/luci/Packages.sig Signature check passed. Downloading http://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/19.07.4/packages/mipsel_24kc/packages/Packages.gz Updated list of available packages in /var/opkg-lists/openwrt_packages Downloading http://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/19.07.4/packages/mipsel_24kc/packages/Packages.sig Signature check passed. Downloading http://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/19.07.4/packages/mipsel_24kc/routing/Packages.gz Updated list of available packages in /var/opkg-lists/openwrt_routing Downloading http://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/19.07.4/packages/mipsel_24kc/routing/Packages.sig Signature check passed. Downloading http://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/19.07.4/packages/mipsel_24kc/telephony/Packages.gz Updated list of available packages in /var/opkg-lists/openwrt_telephony Downloading http://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/19.07.4/packages/mipsel_24kc/telephony/Packages.sig Signature check passed. Command being timed: "opkg update" User time (seconds): 4.02 System time (seconds): 1.59 Percent of CPU this job got: 45% Elapsed (wall clock) time (h:mm:ss or m:ss): 0m 12.27s Average shared text size (kbytes): 0 Average unshared data size (kbytes): 0 Average stack size (kbytes): 0 Average total size (kbytes): 0 Maximum resident set size (kbytes): 7072 Average resident set size (kbytes): 0 Major (requiring I/O) page faults: 56 Minor (reclaiming a frame) page faults: 4349 Voluntary context switches: 1096 Involuntary context switches: 2190 Swaps: 0 File system inputs: 0 File system outputs: 0 Socket messages sent: 0 Socket messages received: 0 Signals delivered: 0 Page size (bytes): 4096 Exit status: 0 root@router:~# time -v opkg list-upgradable Collected errors: * pkg_hash_add_from_file: Failed to open /var/opkg-lists/openwrt_telephony: Out of memory. Command exited with non-zero status 255 Command being timed: "opkg list-upgradable" User time (seconds): 2.82 System time (seconds): 0.28 Percent of CPU this job got: 94% Elapsed (wall clock) time (h:mm:ss or m:ss): 0m 3.28s Average shared text size (kbytes): 0 Average unshared data size (kbytes): 0 Average stack size (kbytes): 0 Average total size (kbytes): 0 Maximum resident set size (kbytes): 44320 Average resident set size (kbytes): 0 Major (requiring I/O) page faults: 0 Minor (reclaiming a frame) page faults: 5980 Voluntary context switches: 670 Involuntary context switches: 1315 Swaps: 0 File system inputs: 0 File system outputs: 0 Socket messages sent: 0 Socket messages received: 0 Signals delivered: 0 Page size (bytes): 4096 Exit status: 255

I was finally able to get my system updated with

sysctl -w vm.overcommit_memory=1 time -v opkg upgrade $(opkg list-upgradable | cut -f 1 -d ' ')

I share your anxiety, Karlito. Dropping support for older devices leaves a lot of perfectly good hardware sitting wasted, and people working on a budget out in the cold. The same thing happens with smartphones all the time; when the most common messenger apps your friends use decide your phone is too old then you're forced to buy a new one, or be cut off if you can't afford it. I imagine this turning out to be critical for hackers trying to network their communities in developing countries, like

  • https://altermundi.net/
  • http://firstmile.ca/
  • https://www.giswatch.org/year/2018-community-networks
  • https://www.fastcompany.com/40540511/why-low-income-communities-are-building-their-own-internet-networks
    But I think we should remember that this is a community-run volunteer project that we're all benefitting from. Bugs are everywhere, and if they seem more prominent in free software that's more because there's not nearly as much funding for it; proprietary routers are also full of bugs, but they have the kind of money to patch over the most common ones, or pay for technical support teams to teach people how to work around them, that a project like OpenWRT just can't afford. Plus they can control exactly what is in their hardware which makes their job 100 times easier than the job of the OpenWRT volunteers. By dropping support for older models they are trying to reduce the amount of bugs they need to solve. But that same process makes cheaper models more prone to bugs because they're not getting tested as thoroughly anymore.

I don't have a good solution. We need to get open source funded properly I guess!

I do hope we can extend the life of cheaper routers. We've identified list-upgradable as the problem here, so maybe we can pitch in by tracing the code and seeing if there's a way to make it process the data in more of a stream instead of a blob.

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And by "we" I mean "we", we're the ones having a problem, if we want it solved we can help out by getting into the code.

@aparcar aparcar added the release/19.07 pull request/issue targeted (also) for OpenWrt 19.07 release label Feb 22, 2022
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