Re: cfservd memory/file handle leak?

[Mark Burgess]

I don't know. Cfengine does not work under valgrind. If anyone has
purify...if it still exists...

On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 09:51 -0500, christian pearce wrote:
> What is the best way to track down this leak?
> 
> On 12/21/05, christian pearce <christian.pearce@versatile.com> wrote:
> > Has anyone tried the latest and greatest?  Is it fixd?
> >
> > USER       PID %CPU %MEM   VSZ  RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
> > root      2491  0.3 26.3 1080636 1069048 ?   S    Nov22 129:29 cfservd
> >
> > I am running 2.1.15 on RedHat.  It has been running for over a month
> > now and it has 1 gig of memory consumed.
> >
> > On 9/24/05, Mark Burgess <Mark.Burgess@iu.hio.no> wrote:
> > > Or you could try upgrading first to see if the problem has already been
> > > fixed.
> > > M
> > >
> > > On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 19:54 -0400, christian pearce wrote:
> > > > There are definitely problems.  We simulate configs of 10,000
> > > > machines.  By the end of the day we has 512M used up by cfservd.  We
> > > > are running 2.1.15.  I have not had a chance to try and track it down.
> > > >  It is actually pretty tough to do this.  I know there are tools, but
> > > > I am not up to speed on them.
> > > >
> > > > On 9/22/05, Mark Burgess <Mark.Burgess@iu.hio.no> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Upgrade, upgrade, upgrade! :)
> > > > >
> > > > > On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 11:46 -0700, Iain Morgan wrote:
> > > > > > I've seen situations where cfservd (2.1.13) on Solaris accumulates 
> > > > > > threads
> > > > > > over time. The threads don't get expired. Presumably if this 
> > > > > > happens over
> > > > > > a protracted period it could eventually prevent cfservd from 
> > > > > > accepting
> > > > > > new connections.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > --
> > > > > > Iain Morgan
> > > > > >
> > > > > > On Thu Sep 22 10:50:09 2005, Martin, Jason H wrote:
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > I've seen cfservd stops accepting connections before, but sadly I 
> > > > > > > didn't
> > > > > > > get enough information about it to say why. Linux / 2.1.15.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > -Jason Martin
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > On Thu, 22 Sep 2005, Paul Krizak wrote:
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > It appears that cfservd is leaking file handles and
> > > > > > > > (possibly) memory.
> > > > > > > > > I ran
> > > > > > > > > cfagent -qB on 1225 hosts twice in a 24-hour period (~12
> > > > > > > > hrs between each
> > > > > > > > > run) and cfservd is now using over 120M of memory and is
> > > > > > > > using 3705 file
> > > > > > > > > descriptors.  When it reaches the shell limit of 4096 file
> > > > > > > > descriptors,
> > > > > > > > > cfservd locks and refuses to accept more connections,
> > > > > > > > though the process does
> > > > > > > > > not die.
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > Has anybody else experienced this?  I hate to take the windoze
> > > > > > > > > approach and
> > > > > > > > > just restart cfservd every morning.
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > I've seen the growth of memory utilization, I've also see it
> > > > > > > > stop taking
> > > > > > > > connections after a certain point..  I've seen this with
> > > > > > > > 2.1.10 and still
> > > > > > > > with 2.1.13.  I'm not planning on going to 2.1.15 until I have 
> > > > > > > > my
> > > > > > > > environment a bit more under control.  Right now I have cfagent 
> > > > > > > > kill
> > > > > > > > cfservd every night at midnight.  It then restarts it later
> > > > > > > > in the morning
> > > > > > > > after backups and whatnot are done.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >
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> > > > --
> > > > Christian Pearce
> > > > Perfect Order, Inc.
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> > Christian Pearce
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