[pgpool-general: 355] Re: severe memory leak in 3.1.1

Tatsuo Ishii ishii at postgresql.org
Mon Apr 16 14:26:35 JST 2012


Lonni,

I have fixed a memory leak problem recently and remembered your posting.

http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=pgpool2.git;a=commitdiff;h=e2c3ece659fa8f6b599912e4957ceb15a955d7eb

The leak happens whenever client session disconnects to pgpool. That
means the more times client connects/disconnects to pgpool, the more
memory leaks. This might be related to your problem?
--
Tatsuo Ishii
SRA OSS, Inc. Japan
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> On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 3:11 PM, Lonni J Friedman <netllama at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 1:46 PM, Tatsuo Ishii <ishii at postgresql.org> wrote:
>>>> On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 7:39 AM, Tatsuo Ishii <ishii at postgresql.org> wrote:
>>>>>> Greetings,
>>>>>> I'm running pgpool-3.1.1 on a Linux-x86_64 system with 8GB RAM and
>>>>>> 2.5GB swap.  Ever since we upgraded from pgpool-3.0.3 to 3.0.4, we've
>>>>>> seen a severe memory leak which consistently consumes all the RAM+swap
>>>>>> on the system every 4-7 days.  The leak is so severe that sometimes
>>>>>> the OOM killer cannot respond fast enough, and the entire server had
>>>>>> locked up one time (with OOM killer spew on the local console).  We're
>>>>>> confident that the leak is in pgpool, as if we stop and (re)start
>>>>>> pgpool, all the memory in use is freed up immediately.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> We were hoping that upgrading to 3.1.1 would eliminate the problem,
>>>>>> however we upgraded to 3.1.1 last Thursday, and as of this morning its
>>>>>> obvious that the leak is still present.  Please advise what kind of
>>>>>> information we can provide to debug this problem.
>>>>>
>>>>> Self contained test case is the best way to tuckle the problem. Can
>>>>> you please provide?
>>>>
>>>> I'm afraid that I don't know what is causing this.  I'm going to need
>>>> your assistance here.
>>>
>>> Please provide pgpool.conf. Also please let know me how did you start
>>> pgpool (pgpool options) and what queries most likely cause the leak. I
>>> need to reproduce your problem.
>>
>> I've attached pgpool.conf.  pgpool is invoked with:
>> /usr/bin/pgpool -f /etc/pgpool-II/pgpool.conf -n
>>
>> I honestly have no idea which queries would likely cause a leak.
>> Other than setting log_per_node_statement=on and log_statement=on and
>> then tracking memory usage over time and correlating to the content in
>> the log, is there any other way to obtain this information?
>>
>>>
>>> In the mean time child_life_time or child_max_connections might help
>>> you, because they force pgpool child process to exit periodically thus
>>> free memory allocated by pgpool. If you still see leak, the problem
>>> must be in the pgpool parent process, not child. In this case you can
>>> see the pgpool parent process growing.
>>
>> Based on top output, it doesn't look like the parent PID is the
>> problem, as the memory usage of it is relatively low.  However, I do
>> see several other pgpool processes that are consuming what looks like
>> a lot of memory (30+ MB each).  I know that they don't start off using
>> anywhere near that much, but I'm not sure how normal it is for their
>> memory usage to grow over time, or by how much.  I've attached top
>> output.  PID 15045 is the parent.
>>
>> I've reduced child_life_time from 300 to 100, and increased
>> child_max_connections from 0 to 250.  I'll see if this has any
>> positive impact.
> 
> I've confirmed that making the above changes has worked around the
> memory leak.  However, I still would like to track this down and get
> it fixed.  I need some guidance on how to determine which query(s) are
> contributing to the leak.
> 
> thanks


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