[Pgpool-general] pgpool-II-3.0.3and4 memory leaks

takehiro wada takehiro.wada at gmail.com
Sun Jul 10 13:22:59 UTC 2011


Hi

I got info of valgrind.
Do you have any idea why this problem occurs?

==11672==
==11672== HEAP SUMMARY:
==11672==     in use at exit: 16,116,283 bytes in 3,990 blocks
==11672==   total heap usage: 350,642 allocs, 346,652 frees, 48,943,488
bytes allocated
==11672==
==11672== 7 bytes in 1 blocks are possibly lost in loss record 2 of 38
==11672==    at 0x40268A4: malloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:236)
==11672==    by 0x4161A9F: strdup (strdup.c:43)
==11672==    by 0x805AA89: extract_string (pool_config.l:1651)
==11672==    by 0x805783B: pool_get_config (pool_config.l:479)
==11672==    by 0x804A7E1: main (main.c:310)
==11672==
==11672== 12 bytes in 1 blocks are definitely lost in loss record 5 of 38
==11672==    at 0x40268A4: malloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:236)
==11672==    by 0x4161A9F: strdup (strdup.c:43)
==11672==    by 0x805AA89: extract_string (pool_config.l:1651)
==11672==    by 0x8059929: pool_get_config (pool_config.l:1253)
==11672==    by 0x804A7E1: main (main.c:310)
==11672==
==11672== 40 bytes in 1 blocks are possibly lost in loss record 12 of 38
==11672==    at 0x40268A4: malloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:236)
==11672==    by 0x4161A9F: strdup (strdup.c:43)
==11672==    by 0x805AA89: extract_string (pool_config.l:1651)
==11672==    by 0x805790A: pool_get_config (pool_config.l:497)
==11672==    by 0x804A7E1: main (main.c:310)
==11672==
==11672== 1,993 (80 direct, 1,913 indirect) bytes in 1 blocks are definitely
lost in loss record 32 of 38
==11672==    at 0x40268A4: malloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:236)
==11672==    by 0x8089252: save_ps_display_args (ps_status.c:173)
==11672==    by 0x804C392: fork_a_child (main.c:1027)
==11672==    by 0x804AE5C: main (main.c:518)
==11672==
==11672== LEAK SUMMARY:
==11672==    definitely lost: 92 bytes in 2 blocks
==11672==    indirectly lost: 1,913 bytes in 19 blocks
==11672==      possibly lost: 47 bytes in 2 blocks
==11672==    still reachable: 16,114,231 bytes in 3,967 blocks
==11672==         suppressed: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
==11672== Reachable blocks (those to which a pointer was found) are not
shown.
==11672== To see them, rerun with: --leak-check=full --show-reachable=yes
==11672==
==11672== For counts of detected and suppressed errors, rerun with: -v
==11672== ERROR SUMMARY: 4 errors from 4 contexts (suppressed: 29 from 10)

2011/7/8 Yoshiyuki Asaba <ysyk.asaba at gmail.com>

> Valgrind may help. Can you try the following steps?
>
> 1. Set num_init_children to 1 in pgpool.conf
> 2. Launche pgpool with valgrind
>  $ valgrind --leak-check=full pgpool -n -d -f pgpool.conf >>
> valgrind.log  2>&1
> 3. Run your script
> 4. Stop pgpool
>
> Thanks,
>
> 2011/7/8 takehiro wada <takehiro.wada at gmail.com>:
> > Hi
> > This porblem occurs in 2.6.9-67, 2.6.26-2 and 2.6.38-8 of Linux Kernels
> of
> > Redhat, Debian and Ubuntu without depending on operating mode of pgpool
> as
> > far as I confirmed.
> > On our production environment, this problem occurs, operating mode of
> pgpool
> > is streaming replication.
> >
> > My pgpool.conf of testcase is below.
> >
> > pgpool.conf
> > --------------------------------------------
> > pid_file_name       = '/var/run/pgpool/pgpool.pid'
> > port                = 10000
> > backend_hostname0   = 'localhost'
> > backend_port0       = 5432
> > --------------------------------------------
> >
> > thanks
> >
> > 2011/7/7 Tatsuo Ishii <ishii at sraoss.co.jp>
> >>
> >> I have tried with your shell script with pgpool-II CVS HEAD. Between
> >> 16:56 and 17:26, about 30k SELECTs have been executed so far. As you
> >> can see RSS was growing from 1904 to 1912 but VSZ remained unchanged
> >> 23208. Thus I think there's no memory leaking.  Pgpool-II is operated
> >> in streaming replication mode. This is Linux kernel 2.6.27. What mode
> >> are you operating? What platform are you using?
> >>
> >> Thu Jul  7 16:56:43 JST 2011
> >> F   UID   PID  PPID PRI  NI    VSZ   RSS WCHAN  STAT TTY        TIME
> >> COMMAND
> >> 1    48 29388 29356  20   0  23208  1904 ?      S    ?          0:03
> >> pgpool: t-ishii postgres 127.0.0.1(46350) idle
> >> Thu Jul  7 17:01:43 JST 2011
> >> F   UID   PID  PPID PRI  NI    VSZ   RSS WCHAN  STAT TTY        TIME
> >> COMMAND
> >> 1    48 29388 29356  20   0  23208  1904 ?      S    ?          0:04
> >> pgpool: t-ishii postgres 127.0.0.1(46350) idle
> >> Thu Jul  7 17:06:43 JST 2011
> >> F   UID   PID  PPID PRI  NI    VSZ   RSS WCHAN  STAT TTY        TIME
> >> COMMAND
> >> 1    48 29388 29356  20   0  23208  1908 ?      S    ?          0:05
> >> pgpool: t-ishii postgres 127.0.0.1(46350) idle
> >> Thu Jul  7 17:11:43 JST 2011
> >> F   UID   PID  PPID PRI  NI    VSZ   RSS WCHAN  STAT TTY        TIME
> >> COMMAND
> >> 1    48 29388 29356  20   0  23208  1908 ?      S    ?          0:06
> >> pgpool: t-ishii postgres 127.0.0.1(46350) idle
> >> Thu Jul  7 17:16:43 JST 2011
> >> F   UID   PID  PPID PRI  NI    VSZ   RSS WCHAN  STAT TTY        TIME
> >> COMMAND
> >> 1    48 29388 29356  20   0  23208  1908 ?      S    ?          0:07
> >> pgpool: t-ishii postgres 127.0.0.1(46350) idle
> >> Thu Jul  7 17:21:43 JST 2011
> >> F   UID   PID  PPID PRI  NI    VSZ   RSS WCHAN  STAT TTY        TIME
> >> COMMAND
> >> 1    48 29388 29356  20   0  23208  1908 ?      S    ?          0:08
> >> pgpool: t-ishii postgres 127.0.0.1(46350) idle
> >> Thu Jul  7 17:26:43 JST 2011
> >> F   UID   PID  PPID PRI  NI    VSZ   RSS WCHAN  STAT TTY        TIME
> >> COMMAND
> >> 1    48 29388 29356  20   0  23208  1912 ?      S    ?          0:09
> >> pgpool: t-ishii postgres 127.0.0.1(46350) idle
> >> --
> >> Tatsuo Ishii
> >> SRA OSS, Inc. Japan
> >> English: http://www.sraoss.co.jp/index_en.php
> >> Japanese: http://www.sraoss.co.jp
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > *************************
> > Name:Takehiro Wada
> > mail:takehiro.wada at gmail.com
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>
>
>
> --
> Yoshiyuki Asaba
> ysyk.asaba at gmail.com
>



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