memory leak?

[Steve Wills]

On Sep 12, 2011, at 11:23 AM, Cantor, Scott wrote:

> On 9/12/11 10:57 AM, "Cantor, Scott" <cantor.2 at osu.edu> wrote:
> 
>> On 9/12/11 10:49 AM, "Steve Wills" <swills at webassign.net> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Is anyone aware of any memory leaks in shibd?
>> 
>> I'm going to find some time to run it under valgrind again to see if
>> anything has changed.
> 
> I've found at least a couple of small leaks per-session, so that would
> build up over time.

Thanks for taking a look. That matches what I'm seeing, which is that RAM usage of shibd always goes up. Traffic peaks at night, then goes down in the early morning each day, but over the course of a week or so, memory usage of shibd only goes up and never seems to level off as I would expect. We didn't see this with shib1, so I assume the issues you mention didn't exist there?

> They're not large, so it's not going to crash the
> thing in a week, but it would contribute.


I guess that depends on how many new sessions we're seeing and how much RAM there is? Could you estimate how much RAM per session we're talking about?

Steve

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