[SR-Users] FW: Regd. t_suspend() and t_continue()

Jason Penton jason.penton at smilecoms.com
Wed Jan 15 08:51:24 CET 2014


Hi Shankar,

What version of Kamailio are you running? Kamailio -V

Cheers
Jason


On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 6:58 AM, Shankar <shankar.rk at plintron.com> wrote:

> Hi Jason,
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> Please find below my response inline,
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> I have some questions for you as we have used suspend/continue quite a lot
> in the IMS code and don't have any leaks.
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> Firstly, why are you using pkg_mem for your hash_id and label? Remember
> that you will be in 2 different processes in the suspend and continue
> portions of the code... so pkg_mem will not work - you should use shm_mem
> instead.
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> [Shankar] We use pkg_mem because we are invoking t_continue from the same
> process ( using thread ).
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> Secondly, how are you using top to tell that you have a leak? Kamailio's
> memory is internally managed.
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> [Shankar] After running for say 20minutes, we get out of shared memory
> error. Also in top output we observed incremental increase in the shared
> usage of shared memory for the process.
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> Cheers
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> Jason
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> On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 1:29 PM, Shankar <shankar.rk at plintron.com> wrote:
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> > Re-sending without the attachment.
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> > *From:* Shankar [mailto:shankar.rk at plintron.com<shankar.rk at plintron.com>
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> > *Sent:* Monday, January 13, 2014 4:57 PM
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> > *To:* 'sr-users at lists.sip-router.org'
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> > *Subject:* Regd. t_suspend() and t_continue()
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> > Hi,
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> > We are trying out the t_suspend() and t_continue() in our test setup.
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> > We are facing memory leak ( both shm and pkg as per top command results).
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> > Please find below the scenario,
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> > 1)      Do a t_newtran()
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> > 2)      Allocate pkg memory for hashid and label.
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> > 3)      Call t_suspend()
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> > 4)      Do t_continue() when async result is available
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> > 5)      De-allocate pkg memory reserved for hashid and label
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> > 6)      Do a t_relay() which forwards the sip message to another sip
> node.
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> > In the  step (6) above, we see t_newtran() allocates one more time
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> > shared memory for the same transaction.
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> > We tried t_release() after step (4) to release the transaction as
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> > t_relay() anyways allocates new shared memory. Nothing helped.
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> > Please let me know what are the logs you would require to debug the same.
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> > I am attaching syslog for this run.
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> > Regards,
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> > Shankar
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