perlbal memory leak?

[Mark Smith]

The "stats" plugin you are using leaks memory.  Known bug, unfixed.  It's
something funky that I haven't sat down to figure out yet.  Please feel
free to have at it if you want... :)

-jr

On Fri, Dec 02, 2005, Ask Bj?rn Hansen wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> One of my perlbal installations keep leaking(?) memory.  Not at a  
> super rapid rate, but that's mostly because it's not getting too much  
> traffic.  Just now after about 4M requests it was at ~500MB.   I've  
> included the configuration file below.  The option option I use is -- 
> config to specify the configuration file.
> 
> I use the latest version from CVS.  We use RHEL3 on this box (and  
> others without the problem).  perl 5.8.3 (the same on this box and  
> the others).
> 
> In the output (I run it under supervise) I a lot of lines like the  
> one below are slowly adding up.  I just saw them now and haven't  
> looked at the code to see if  it could be related.
> 
> Undef client_ip (Perlbal::ClientProxy=ARRAY(0xb3c7dde8)) in  
> assign_client.  Closing. at lib/Perlbal/BackendHTTP.pm line 179.
> Undef client_ip (Perlbal::ClientProxy=ARRAY(0xb3c9cbd4)) in  
> assign_client.  Closing. at lib/Perlbal/BackendHTTP.pm line 179.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> 
>   - ask
> 
> SERVER max_connections = 10000
> LOAD stats
> SERVER max_reproxy_connections = 50
> 
> CREATE POOL xrl_pool
>   POOL xrl_pool ADD 127.0.0.1:8233
> 
> CREATE SERVICE web_proxy
>   SET role = reverse_proxy
>   SET pool = xrl_pool
>   SET listen = 216.52.237.134:80
>   SET plugins = stats
>   SET trusted_upstream_proxies = 10.0.0.0/24
>   SET connect_ahead = 2
>   SET persist_backend = on
>   SET max_backend_uses = 200
>   SET backend_persist_cache = 4
>   SET verify_backend = on
> ENABLE web_proxy
> 
> CREATE SERVICE mgmt
>   SET mgmt.role = management
>   SET mgmt.listen = 0.0.0.0:8065
> ENABLE mgmt
> 
> 
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Junior (aka Mark Smith)
junior at danga.com

Software Engineer
Six Apart / Danga Interactive