[Unbound-users] Slowly memory leak?

[W.C.A. Wijngaards]

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Hi Tomoki,

On 05/17/2012 04:25 PM, fwkh7691 at nifty.com wrote:
> Hi all.
> 
> I'm using unbound 1.4.16 with following server. 
> ==================== FreeBSD9.0(32bit) RAM 4GB 1 CPU 
> ====================
> 
> unbound.conf: ==================== msg-cache-size: 250m 
> rrset-cache-size: 500m module-config: "iterator" 
> ====================
> 
> I checked cache memories using "unbound-control stats_noreset". 
> Increment of msg cache memory is stop at 266MB. Increment of RRset
> cache memory is stop at 532MB.

But the memory allocator has fragmentation overhead, this can increase
to double to allocation in total, 500m and 1000m memory.  That is the
maximum really.

> But, increment of memory usage is not stop. I checked it using ps
> command. The result is following. ============================== #
> date ; ps aux | head -3 Thu May 17 22:52:40 JST 2012 USER      PID
> %CPU %MEM    VSZ    RSS  TT  STAT STARTED        TIME COMMAND root
> 11  99.0  0.0      0      8  ??  RL   13Apr12 48831:35.16 [idle] 
> unbound 14313   5.0 68.6 1445512 1426924  ??  Ss   17Apr12
> 175:47.60 /usr/lo cal/sbin/unbound
> 
> # date ; ps aux | head -3 Thu May 17 23:11:18 JST 2012 USER
> PID  %CPU %MEM    VSZ    RSS  TT  STAT STARTED        TIME COMMAND 
> root       11  94.0  0.0      0      8  ??  RL   13Apr12
> 48848:17.65 [idle] unbound 14313   5.0 68.6 1445512 1426944  ??  Ss
> 17Apr12   177:11.51 /usr/lo cal/sbin/unbound
> 
> Thu May 17 23:22:47 JST 2012 USER      PID  %CPU %MEM    VSZ    RSS
> TT  STAT STARTED        TIME COMMAND root       11  90.0  0.0
> 0      8  ??  RL   13Apr12 48858:33.42 [idle] unbound 14313   6.9
> 68.6 1445512 1427020  ??  Ss   17Apr12   178:04.08 /usr/lo 
> cal/sbin/unbound ============================== - Continuously
> incremented. But, not always. Sometimes this increment is stop. -
> This increment is not synchronized with the number of queries.

I think this is memory fragmentation (the space between allocated
memory blocks, wasted space), that increases slowly.

FreeBSD malloc has debug modes that can give you extra information,
and if that is not sufficient, unbound has an internal alloc-check
mode that tests memory as well (unbound's extra memory checks are
slow) configure with --enable-alloc-lite or with
- --enable-alloc-checks.  You can also enable --enable-alloc-nonregional
to see malloc statistics for things that are normally handled by a
special purpose memory allocator.

Best regards,
   Wouter
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