On Sun, Jan 15, 2023 at 10:10:24PM -0800, Gordon Messmer wrote: > I'm working on reducing memory use in packagekitd, and so far > progress has been very good. I've opened 4 memory-related PRs > against PackageKit and libdnf this week, and locally I've reduced > memory use at idle by almost 90% (I can reliably cause stock > packagekitd to use ~ 700MB of RAM in a couple of minutes, but a > patched version will free most of its memory and shrink to around > 75MB.) > > However, I've hit a possibly minor road block. I haven't fixed all > of the leaks originally reported; valgrind still reports some leaks > in my patched builds, but most of the call stack is unresolved, so I > can't locate the problems in order to address any remaining issues. > > I'm running 'valgrind --leak-check=full --num-callers=25 > /usr/libexec/packagekitd', running for a while, and then exiting > with Ctrl-C. When I exit, I get a list of leaks, most of which > contain unresolved symbols. I see the same thing when I run > Fedora's builds (in which case, debug info appears to be provided by > debuginfod-client), or when I run my own builds (in which case I'm > installing the debuginfo and debugsource packages produced by the > local build.) > > Does anyone have any hints for improving the information I get from > valgrind?
Just wanted to report that valgrind works very well for me in Fedora if you have correct debuginfo installed (or debuginfod). I use it very regularly. Also want to mention that your valgrind command line is ... a little naive. Many other options are useful. Here's what we use in nbdkit: https://gitlab.com/nbdkit/nbdkit/-/blob/a5f804180240aea7031470cb8ed294f904268f0a/wrapper.c#L206-216 (Best to check each of these options in the manual before using) Also make use of suppressions: https://gitlab.com/nbdkit/nbdkit/-/tree/master/valgrind Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-builder quickly builds VMs from scratch http://libguestfs.org/virt-builder.1.html _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
