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bug#22357: grep -f not only huge memory usage, but also huge time cost


From: Norihiro Tanaka
Subject: bug#22357: grep -f not only huge memory usage, but also huge time cost
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2016 00:12:58 +0900

On Mon, 14 Mar 2016 14:31:50 +0800
JQK <address@hidden> wrote:
> # env time grep -w -f <(seq 200000) <(shuf -i 1-200000 -n 250)
> :
> 288.77user 64.23system 10:35.71elapsed 55%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata
> 3492784maxresident)k
> 8967032inputs+0outputs (154389major+1493890minor)pagefaults 0swaps

The issue also reproceduces for following.

  $ env time grep -w -f <(seq 200000) </dev/null

grep matcher searches with a lazy deterministic automaton, but it is not
good at the big pattern.  This bug resembles bug#21763 and bug#22239.







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