I found these instructions to be very helpful. It documents the steps to rebuild things with instrumentation needed to debug these things. -will
http://openser.org/dokuwiki/doku.php/troubleshooting:memory Ardjan Zwartjes wrote: > Good morning developers, > > I'm currently developing some custom openser modules, which is going > fine, except for the fact that I seem to have introduced a memory leak > somewhere. After some time of running, openser stops functioning and > keeps giving "out of memory errors". > Following the pointers on > http://www.openser.org/dokuwiki/doku.php/troubleshooting:memory#how_to_h > andle_it I have compiled openser and my modules with DBG_QM_MALLOC to > generate the memory logging. I restarted openser, placed one call using > my modules and waited for 20 minutes before sending a SIGUSR1 signal to > one of the SER threads. This gave me about 1800 lines of extra logging > showing 143 alloc'ed fragments in SHM and 469 in PKG. My guess is this > isn't good ;). The problem is that none of the alloc'ed fragments is > alloc'ed from my own code. > My guess is that I'm forgetting to free some memory alloc'ed by an API > call, but I'm clueless on how to find the place in my code where I make > this call. I checked to see if the memory is alloc'ed from a single > location, but unfortunately that is not the case. There are however some > locations that have a lot of alloc'ed fragments left, I've put the top 3 > below. > > cfg.lex: addstr(785) (137 fragments) > route_struct.c: mk_action(104) (108 fragments) > Route_struct.c: mk_exp(53) (55 fragments) > > Can somebody give me any pointers on how to locate the origin of this > memory leak? Are the lines mentioned above used in a common API call > which leaves memory to be freed? Any help would be greatly appreciated. > If needed, I can put the complete memory log online, but my guess is > that there aren't that many people interested in going through 1800 > lines of memory logging ;). > > Kind regards, > Ardjan Zwartjes > Telecats BV > > ----- > Ardjan Zwartjes | R&D Consultant | Telecats bv | KvK Enschede 06069106 | > Tel:053 488 99 18 | Fax: 053 488 99 10 | E-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | > > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > Devel@openser.org > http://openser.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devel > _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@openser.org http://openser.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devel
