[SR-Users] Memory leak

Daniel-Constantin Mierla miconda at gmail.com
Tue Sep 21 10:29:13 CEST 2010


  For a shorter version of memory status you can set memory_summary=2 or 3:

http://www.kamailio.org/dokuwiki/doku.php/core-cookbook:3.0.x#mem_summary

This will show quickly if there is a leak.
Cheers,
Daniel

On 9/21/10 9:57 AM, marius zbihlei wrote:
> On 09/21/2010 09:18 AM, Marius Zbihlei wrote:
>> Hello
>>
>> Can you give us more information on the modules you are loading/ your 
>> specific config ?
>>
>> Marius
>
> Also, is it shared memory or private memory? If you have a dump of the 
> memory distribution, can you spot anything out of the ordinary. As a 
> tip look for functions in the ending part of the dump that repeat for 
> multiple times. The lower offset is usually alloc'ed during module 
> initialization so any big leak will happen at higher offsets (I don't 
> know if this is the rule but this is what I observed).
>
> Have you tried increasing the memory pool?
>
> Cheers
> Marius
>> ________________________________________
>> From: sr-users-bounces at lists.sip-router.org 
>> [sr-users-bounces at lists.sip-router.org] On Behalf Of Santiago Soares 
>> [santiagosoares at gmail.com]
>> Sent: Monday, September 20, 2010 9:21 PM
>> To: SR-Users; users at lists.kamailio.org
>> Subject: [SR-Users] Memory leak
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> We use Kamailio as a stateless load balancer.
>> It runs on a VM, with 512 MB RAM, and it seems to have some kind of 
>> memory leak.
>> The kamailio processes consume all available memory, until Kamailio 
>> crashes and restart.
>> This occurs about once a day.
>> Since it's stateless, and the restart is very fast, it's not a big 
>> deal, but I'd like to fix it.
>> The strange thing is that I updated kamailio from 1.5.3 to 3.0.3 and 
>> the problem still ocurrs.
>> I followed the instructions on 
>> http://www.kamailio.org/dokuwiki/doku.php/troubleshooting:memory in 
>> order to determine the cause, and stopped the traffic on the proxy. 
>> The allocated memory were not freed, after 1 hour the amount of free 
>> memory is still the same.
>> Anybody has an ideia about what's happening, or how can I debug it?
>>
>> Thank you!
>>
>> Santiago Soares
>>
>>
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