[pgpool-general: 357] Re: severe memory leak in 3.1.1

Lonni J Friedman netllama at gmail.com
Tue Apr 17 01:52:17 JST 2012


Thanks for following up.  This does sound like a possible cause of the
problem.  I intend to apply this patch (plus the
pool_process_query.patch you gave me several weeks ago) this coming
Friday.  Hopefully I should have feedback for you by the end of the
following week.

On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 10:26 PM, Tatsuo Ishii <ishii at postgresql.org> wrote:
> 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
> English: http://www.sraoss.co.jp/index_en.php
> Japanese: http://www.sraoss.co.jp
>
>> 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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