Why world needs openscap_parser? #22

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1. xprazak2 commented on Nov 13, 2019

   

   xprazak2

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   Hi,
   you are right, there is a lot of overlap with openscap gem. While using it in a long-running process, there was an excessive memory consumption, which eventually lead to the crash of the whole process. The exact cause is still unclear, the issue was resolved by calling any method from openscap gem in a shellout, which is far from a perfect solution.

   The memory issue was also encountered by compliance-backend, but the same workaround could not be applied in a containerized environment, @dLobatog will have more details about that.
2. redhatrises commented on Nov 13, 2019

   

   redhatrises

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   Some statements that have been made:

   - multiple segfaults
   - much of the data attributes are not possible to obtain
   - multiple memory leaks which are especially problematic in a containerized environment (Openshift)
   - due to the issues above, we were failing performance testing which was a hard requirement for Cloud Services for RHEL Compliance to launch at summit.