Re: [bitcoin-dev] Memory leaks?

From: Btc Drak <btcdrak@gmail•com>
To: Jonathan Toomim <j@toom•im>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org>,
	bitcoin-xt <bitcoin-xt@googlegroups•com>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Memory leaks?
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2015 18:01:53 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADJgMzvVJQxaoB7m=voo60whG4NQGV2jf0riN4QoM8eLGABxkA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <EE15A8BE-0606-4610-B5A8-0C3C1BC5017E@toom.im>

I think this thread has gotten to the stage where it should be moved
to an issue on Github and not continue to CC the bitcoin-dev list (or
any other list tbh).

On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 5:27 PM, Jonathan Toomim via bitcoin-dev
<bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> You may want to add a cron job to restart bitcoind every day or two as a
> damage control mechanism until we figure this out.
>
> On Oct 22, 2015, at 9:06 AM, Multipool Admin <admin@multipool•us> wrote:
>
> This is a real issue.  The bitcoind process is getting killed every few days
> when it reaches around 55gb of usage on my server.
>
> On Oct 21, 2015 12:29 AM, "Tom Zander via bitcoin-dev"
> <bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Tuesday 20 Oct 2015 20:01:16 Jonathan Toomim wrote:
>> >  claimed that he had this memory usage issue on Linux, but not on Mac OS
>> > X,
>> > under a GBT workload in both situations. If this is true, that would
>> > suggest this might be a fragmentation issue due to poor memory
>> > allocation.
>>
>> Please make sure you measure your memory usage correctly on Linux, it is
>> notoriously easy to get misleading info from tools like top.
>>
>> I use this one on Linux.
>>
>> $cat ~/bin/showmemusage
>> #!/bin/sh
>> if test -z "$1"; then
>>     echo "need a pid"
>>     exit
>> fi
>>
>> mem=`echo 0 $(cat /proc/$1/smaps | grep Pss | awk '{print $2}' | \
>> sed 's#^#+#' ) | bc`
>> echo "$mem KB"
>>
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