[OpenSER-Users] [OpenSER-Devel] Memory dump for OpenSER 1.3.1 which slowly leaks memory

Bogdan-Andrei Iancu bogdan at voice-system.ro
Thu May 8 17:05:58 CEST 2008


Julian,

how much private and shared memory are you using and how many process 
you have?

Again, note that openser is not dynamically getting memory from OS at 
runtime - all memory that is used by openser is requested from OS at 
startup.

Regards,
Bogdan

Julian Yap wrote:
> Bogdan,
>
> I'll need to check out the shmem statistics.
>
> I mean, this is the memory output for the OpenSER processes having run
> for about 24 hours.  Does it look right?:
> # ps -C openser -o vsz,rss
>   VSZ  RSS
> 234124 12636
> 369940 159392
> 369940 158840
> 369940 158860
> 370340 159220
> 369804 158696
> 370068 158932
> 370204 159048
> 370464 159344
> 234124 20904
> 234124 9484
> 234128 7952
> 234124 7948
> 234124 7880
> 234124 7880
> 234124 7880
> 234124 7880
> 234124 7880
> 234124 7880
> 234124 7880
> 234124 8332
>
> Here are the modules I'm using.  Not sure if any have a dependency on libxml:
> loadmodule "mysql.so"
> loadmodule "sl.so"
> loadmodule "tm.so"
> loadmodule "usrloc.so"
> loadmodule "auth.so"
> loadmodule "auth_db.so"
> loadmodule "maxfwd.so"
> loadmodule "mi_fifo.so"
> loadmodule "nathelper.so"
> loadmodule "perl.so"
> loadmodule "registrar.so"
> loadmodule "rr.so"
> loadmodule "textops.so"
> loadmodule "uri.so"
>
>
> Thanks,
> Julian
>
> On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 5:22 AM, Bogdan-Andrei Iancu
> <bogdan at voice-system.ro> wrote:
>   
>> Hi Julian,
>>
>>  Have you tried to use the the shmem statistics to monitor the usage of SHM
>> memory?
>>
>>  Both for PKG and SHM memory, openser allocs at startup the whole memory
>> (depending of how much you configured). Any leak will not be vizible for any
>> external tools.
>>
>>  Also, are you using any module that have dependency of libxml library?
>>
>>  The dump you posted shows more or less nothing more than init phase -
>> before sending the signal, be sure you select a worker process (use fifo
>> command "ps" to get the list and types of processes).
>>
>>  Regards,
>>  Bogdan
>>
>>  Julian Yap wrote:
>>
>>     
>>>
>>> On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 10:25 PM, Henning Westerholt
>>> <henning.westerholt at 1und1.de> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>>>> On Saturday 03 May 2008, Julian Yap wrote:
>>>>  > I'm currently running OpenSER 1.3.1.
>>>>  >
>>>>  > It seems to slowly leaks memory.
>>>>  >
>>>>  > I've recompiled it as per for debug support in the memory manager:
>>>>  > http://www.openser.org/dokuwiki/doku.php/troubleshooting:memory
>>>>  >
>>>>  > Here is the memory manager dump of the memory status:
>>>>  > http://julianyap.com/download/openser1.3.1_memory_dump20080502.txt
>>>>  >
>>>>  > Any suggestions would be very welcome.
>>>>
>>>>  Hi Julian,
>>>>
>>>>  can you give a little more details about your problem? Why do you think
>>>>         
>> it
>>     
>>>>  leaks memory? Do you get memory allocation errors in the logs?
>>>>
>>>>  Cheers,
>>>>
>>>>  Henning
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> Henning,
>>>
>>> I don't get any memory allocation errors.
>>>
>>> I've recently updated to OpenSER 1.3 branch SVN r4107 but the 'leak'
>>> still remains.
>>>
>>> On a 4GB box, free memory just seems to deplete.
>>>
>>> I have a cron job which restarts OpenSER every night but it seems like
>>> not all the memory is free'd up.  Eventually the box needs to be
>>> rebooted.  In the past, running out of memory has led to oom-killer
>>> killing OpenSER.
>>>
>>> For example, I have this cron job:
>>> */5 * * * * root echo "`date` `free | grep 'buffers/cache'`" >>
>>> /var/log/free_memory.log
>>>
>>> Memory just depletes.  Here's where OpenSER was restarted around midnight:
>>> Sun May  4 23:10:01 HST 2008 -/+ buffers/cache:    2014972    2095204
>>> Sun May  4 23:15:01 HST 2008 -/+ buffers/cache:    2027184    2082992
>>> Sun May  4 23:20:01 HST 2008 -/+ buffers/cache:    2027604    2082572
>>> Sun May  4 23:25:01 HST 2008 -/+ buffers/cache:    2038064    2072112
>>> Sun May  4 23:30:01 HST 2008 -/+ buffers/cache:    2037868    2072308
>>> Sun May  4 23:35:01 HST 2008 -/+ buffers/cache:    2053184    2056992
>>> Sun May  4 23:40:01 HST 2008 -/+ buffers/cache:    2055216    2054960
>>> Sun May  4 23:45:01 HST 2008 -/+ buffers/cache:    2075612    2034564
>>> Sun May  4 23:50:01 HST 2008 -/+ buffers/cache:    2103232    2006944
>>> Sun May  4 23:55:01 HST 2008 -/+ buffers/cache:    2114384    1995792
>>> Mon May  5 00:00:01 HST 2008 -/+ buffers/cache:    2117320    1992856
>>> Mon May  5 00:05:01 HST 2008 -/+ buffers/cache:     860304    3249872
>>> Mon May  5 00:10:01 HST 2008 -/+ buffers/cache:     861208    3248968
>>> Mon May  5 00:15:01 HST 2008 -/+ buffers/cache:     868968    3241208
>>>
>>> Here's where I just restarted OpenSER:
>>> Mon May  5 23:30:01 HST 2008 -/+ buffers/cache:    2041740    2068436
>>> Mon May  5 23:35:01 HST 2008 -/+ buffers/cache:    2049572    2060604
>>> Mon May  5 23:40:01 HST 2008 -/+ buffers/cache:    2054856    2055320
>>> Mon May  5 23:45:01 HST 2008 -/+ buffers/cache:    2065316    2044860
>>> Mon May  5 23:50:01 HST 2008 -/+ buffers/cache:    2062248    2047928
>>> Mon May  5 23:55:01 HST 2008 -/+ buffers/cache:    2076148    2034028
>>> Tue May  6 00:00:01 HST 2008 -/+ buffers/cache:    2087256    2022920
>>> Tue May  6 00:05:01 HST 2008 -/+ buffers/cache:    2091300    2018876
>>> Tue May  6 00:10:01 HST 2008 -/+ buffers/cache:    2093244    2016932
>>> Tue May  6 00:15:01 HST 2008 -/+ buffers/cache:    1382632    2727544
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Julian
>>>
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