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  1. Core Server
  2. SERVER-21167

Top keeps state about operations against non-existent collections

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      The Top singleton object keeps state about find/update/remove operations against non-existent collections. This is unexpected.

      If a malfunctioning or malicious client repeatedly issues queries against unique non-existent collections, the "top" command will start to return an error after the size of the response object exceeds the maximum size of a BSON object, and the Top usage map will grow to an arbitrary size in memory. This memory can be reclaimed with a restart of the mongod process.

      Reproduce with the following script:

      db.dropDatabase();
db.foo.find().itcount();
db.baz.update({}, {$set: {a: 1}});
db.bar.remove({});
var res = db.adminCommand("top");
assert.isnull(res.totals["test.foo"]);  // Trips: unexpected.
assert.isnull(res.totals["test.bar"]);  // Trips: unexpected.
assert.isnull(res.totals["test.baz"]);  // Trips: unexpected.

            Assignee:
            sean.tao Sean Tao
            Reporter:
            rassi J Rassi
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