Thanks for the reply. I will try GRPC_STREAM_REFCOUNT_DEBUG.
Just a quick question, when is destroy_channel(...) called? We are using 
the same channel over and over. Does that mean destroy_channel is not 
called?

On Thursday, September 29, 2016 at 3:22:44 PM UTC-7, Yang Gao wrote:
>
> Hi, The stub can be shared by different calls, but the memory is freed in 
> https://github.com/grpc/grpc/blob/master/src/core/lib/surface/channel.c#L311
>  
> You can try to define GRPC_STREAM_REFCOUNT_DEBUG to have more logs.
>
> On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 5:17 PM, <[email protected] <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> I am tracking down a memory leak, and it leads to the NewStub call (async 
>> in my case).  In our code, for every rpc request from the client, a NewStub 
>> is created to send the request. The stub object returned from NewStub is 
>> correctly deleted (as a unique_ptr), but something else during the call is 
>> not.
>>
>> From the code, Stub::Stub sets the RpcMethod object. RpcMethod's 
>> constructor calls channel->RegisterMethod(name), which then calls 
>> grpc_channel_register_call who does a gpr_malloc(sizeof(registered_call)). 
>> I am not sure when this memory should be freed, but jeprof also reports 
>> this gpr_malloc is leaking.
>>
>> I also tried turning on GRPC_TRACE, and saw this 
>> grpc_channel_register_call, but never the one that frees the memory. Maybe 
>> I am not familiar with the grpc code, but can someone explain how this 
>> memory is freed?
>>
>> Thanks for any pointer.
>>
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