Process freezes while trying to parse large binary file

[es3n1n]

As you may know, there is a Wakatime plugin for the hexrays product IDA Pro, and IDA Pro stores the project info in their custom binary format, and often this file could reach a very huge size. Lately, we've been getting system crashes because wakatime-cli process keeps running with 4gbs of allocated memory, each time you make a change in your project, the new instance of wakatime-cli spawns and starts to eat your memory, resulting in a system crash(and a project changes loss too).

So what I did is I grabbed the arguments that are getting passed to wakatime-cli and tried to just run it within my python script

from subprocess import Popen
from subprocess import PIPE
from pathlib import Path


def launch(*args):
    x = Popen(args, stdout=PIPE, stderr=PIPE)
    x.wait()
    print(x.stdout.read())


wakatime_cli_path = Path('C:\\Users\\retard\\.wakatime\\wakatime-cli-windows-amd64.exe')


while True:
    launch(
        str(wakatime_cli_path.absolute()),
        '--entity', 'SomeEntity',
        '--time', '1694564455.902440',
        '--plugin', 'ida-pro/7.7 ida-pro-wakatime/1.0',
        '--local-file', 'D:\\test.i64',
        '--alternate-language', 'IDA',
        '--category', '"code reviewing"',
        '--key', 'redacted',
        '--alternate-project', 'test.i64'
    )

That's how i confirmed that when i remove the local-file path it works just fine.

When the process froze I checked the opened handles and found the handle to the file, considering that i think you guys can add some flag that would disable all the logic related to this file. I uploaded a .i64 file that causes the process to allocate the memory for it and just freeze, you can try to pass it to the wakatime-cli and you'll see what i mean.

Expected behavior (what should have happened): wakatime-cli should send the heartbeat and gracefully exit without eating your whole ram

Actual behavior (what went wrong): wakatime-cli keeps running resulting in many instances running at the same time and the system crashes with a blue screen on Windows :^)

Environment:

• OS: tested only on windows64
• Platform: amd64

Logs:
there's none

[gandarez]

@es3n1n I can't download that file as it's broken for me. Is there another way to share with us? Maybe WeTransfer?

[es3n1n]

@es3n1n I can't download that file as it's broken for me. Is there another way to share with us? Maybe WeTransfer?

Reuploaded it to the WeTransfer

[gandarez]

A new lexer is needed in order to avoid wakatime-cli detecting it as Objective C and hanging forever trying to read it. As soon as this PR gets merged and released you'll need to close the IDE and reopen to update the cli version.

[es3n1n]

Can confirm that everything works as expected on the latest preview release