Maybe the better question is, what uses memory ? OS obviously, firewall rules, queues, connection information.......
---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: Josh Luthman <[email protected]> Reply-To: Mikrotik discussions <[email protected]> Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2011 17:21:41 -0400 >Doesn't eat the ram on the two routers I have it on, one x86 the other 750. >On Apr 24, 2011 5:17 PM, "Stuart Pierce" <[email protected]> wrote: >> I started testing out that script that you mentioned awhile back about UBB >in the comment field. That's when I started noticing the memory depletion. >http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/AutomatedBilling and the one by Andrew Cox. >> >> ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- >> From: Josh Luthman <[email protected]> >> Reply-To: Mikrotik discussions <[email protected]> >> Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2011 16:38:44 -0400 >> >>>With a supout MT can and will tell you what ps is eating the CPU and RAM. >>>On Apr 24, 2011 4:36 PM, "Stuart Pierce" <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> Well I had had a couple of scripts running all the time, up until a >couple >>>of weeks ago. Then I added the one to keep track of usage in the comment >of >>>the queue. I added another script to do something else for that one and >>>tweaked the original. >>>> >>>> That's when I noticed my email backup script wasn't emailing. Then I >>>noticed that the memory was running down from what 128 at start to ( as of >>>this moment after a day and 6hours ) 66 megs. >>>> >>>> I'm just testing out these scripts so I am going to have to stop one and >>>see if it slows or stops the leak. But I have no idea of what in them is >>>causing the leak. The one I recently added reads a file into an array, not >a >>>big file by any means. Although as you say and I would think, after the >>>script finished, the memory space used should be returned. >>>> >>>> >>>> ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- >>>> From: Bill Prince <[email protected]> >>>> Reply-To: Mikrotik discussions <[email protected]> >>>> Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2011 11:51:30 -0700 >>>> >>>>>That would not be standard linux, but then I guess MT is not really >>>>>"standard". >>>>> >>>>>That said, I would be more inclined to suspect a leak in a process that >>>>>is running all the time. >>>>> >>>>>I have no idea how MT launches scripts. I would suspect there is some >>>>>sort of cron daemon or something. >>>>> >>>>>Do you know for certain that it is the scripts that are the source of >>>>>the leak? >>>>> >>>>>bp >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>On 4/24/2011 11:39 AM, Stuart Pierce wrote: >>>>>> Well one would think. Maybe it's Global variables somehow that are >>>somehow re-initialized or created new with the same name and the original >>>one's memory is not released. I'm using 4.11 on a 433AH and am not ready >to >>>try out 4.17 or 5.0 on this tower. >>>>>> >>>>>> ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- >>>>>> From: Bill Prince<[email protected]> >>>>>> Reply-To: Mikrotik discussions<[email protected]> >>>>>> Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2011 08:13:30 -0700 >>>>>> >>>>>>> If the script is re-execed whenever it's run, any leaks should go >away >>>>>>> with the script shell when it terminates. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> bp >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On 4/23/2011 10:42 PM, Stuart Pierce wrote: >>>>>>>> I'm wondering if not releasing local variables at script end, that >it >>>doesn't release the memory used for some reason. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- >>>>>>>> From: Jacob Heider<[email protected]> >>>>>>>> Reply-To: Mikrotik discussions<[email protected]> >>>>>>>> Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2011 22:39:40 -0400 >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Seconded. I've run a few routers out of memory, slowly, over weeks >or >>>>>>>>> months. What am I failing to properly account for? >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> On 2011-04-23 10:37 PM, Stuart Pierce wrote: >>>>>>>>>> What are some of the biggest reasons for scripts to leak memory ? >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> ________________________________________________________________ >>>>>>>>>> Sent via the WebMail system at avolve.net >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>>>>>> Mikrotik mailing list >>>>>>>>>> [email protected] >>>>>>>>>> http://www.butchevans.com/mailman/listinfo/mikrotik >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> Visit http://blog.butchevans.com/ for tutorials related to >Mikrotik >>>RouterOS >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>>>>> Mikrotik mailing list >>>>>>>>> [email protected] >>>>>>>>> http://www.butchevans.com/mailman/listinfo/mikrotik >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Visit http://blog.butchevans.com/ for tutorials related to Mikrotik >>>RouterOS >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> ________________________________________________________________ >>>>>>>> Sent via the WebMail system at avolve.net >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>>>> Mikrotik mailing list >>>>>>>> [email protected] >>>>>>>> http://www.butchevans.com/mailman/listinfo/mikrotik >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Visit http://blog.butchevans.com/ for tutorials related to Mikrotik >>>RouterOS >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>>> Mikrotik mailing list >>>>>>> [email protected] >>>>>>> http://www.butchevans.com/mailman/listinfo/mikrotik >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Visit http://blog.butchevans.com/ for tutorials related to Mikrotik >>>RouterOS >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> ________________________________________________________________ >>>>>> Sent via the WebMail system at avolve.net >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> Mikrotik mailing list >>>>>> [email protected] >>>>>> http://www.butchevans.com/mailman/listinfo/mikrotik >>>>>> >>>>>> Visit http://blog.butchevans.com/ for tutorials related to Mikrotik >>>RouterOS >>>>>> >>>>>_______________________________________________ >>>>>Mikrotik mailing list >>>>>[email protected] >>>>>http://www.butchevans.com/mailman/listinfo/mikrotik >>>>> >>>>>Visit http://blog.butchevans.com/ for tutorials related to Mikrotik >>>RouterOS >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> ________________________________________________________________ >>>> Sent via the WebMail system at avolve.net >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Mikrotik mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://www.butchevans.com/mailman/listinfo/mikrotik >>>> >>>> Visit http://blog.butchevans.com/ for tutorials related to Mikrotik >>>RouterOS >>>-------------- next part -------------- >>>An HTML attachment was scrubbed... >>>URL: < >http://www.butchevans.com/pipermail/mikrotik/attachments/20110424/25b6045b/attachment.html >> >>>_______________________________________________ >>>Mikrotik mailing list >>>[email protected] >>>http://www.butchevans.com/mailman/listinfo/mikrotik >>> >>>Visit http://blog.butchevans.com/ for tutorials related to Mikrotik >RouterOS >>> >> >> >> >> >> >> ________________________________________________________________ >> Sent via the WebMail system at avolve.net >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mikrotik mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.butchevans.com/mailman/listinfo/mikrotik >> >> Visit http://blog.butchevans.com/ for tutorials related to Mikrotik >RouterOS >-------------- next part -------------- >An HTML attachment was scrubbed... >URL: ><http://www.butchevans.com/pipermail/mikrotik/attachments/20110424/17c6b036/attachment.html> >_______________________________________________ >Mikrotik mailing list >[email protected] >http://www.butchevans.com/mailman/listinfo/mikrotik > >Visit http://blog.butchevans.com/ for tutorials related to Mikrotik RouterOS > ________________________________________________________________ Sent via the WebMail system at avolve.net _______________________________________________ Mikrotik mailing list [email protected] http://www.butchevans.com/mailman/listinfo/mikrotik Visit http://blog.butchevans.com/ for tutorials related to Mikrotik RouterOS
