brackup possible memory leak - consumes 1.5GB+ with 64MB chunk size

William J. Coldwell cryo+brackup at cryo.ws
Fri Jul 24 23:36:15 UTC 2009


usemymalloc=n, here


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On Jul 24, 2009, at 4:03 PM, Shaun Amott wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 09:33:34AM +0100, George Hills wrote:
>>
>> I've been looking at a server which backs up about 600GB of data
>> overnight from a local disk to Amazon using brackup 1.09.
>>
>> The backup process has worked faultlessly for several weeks, but
>> recently begain failing.
>>
>> The pattern to the failures is that brackup consumes all the  
>> available
>> RAM and then gets killed. The available RAM on the box is upwards  
>> of 2GB.
>>
>> The data on the local disk changes quite a lot. brackup does not  
>> always
>> run out of memory at the same time. Sometimes it seems to run for a  
>> long
>> period and complete a substantial amount of the upload, while RAM use
>> remains stable around 400MB, before blowing up.
>>
>
> Is your Perl binary compiled with usemymalloc=y?
>
> Shaun
>
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