[Gllug] Troubleshooting Memory Leak

[william pink]

On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Stephen Nelson-Smith <sanelson at gmail.com>wrote:

> I have a CentOS 5 server running nginx, httpd and a dozen or so
> mongrel instances.  Since this morning I've been experiencing a
> serious memory leak - about 2G in 2 hours, until the machine needs to
> be rebooted.  I've tried to answer the question "what changed", and I
> can't think of anything on my side...
>
> In top, and related tools, I see no processes growing in size - all I
> see is the amount of memory available constantly reducing.
>
> The sort of thing I can think of that fits the evidence would be
> something like a process is being created and then dying without
> returning the memory to the system.
>
> However, I am unable to see the malloc's, and I can't currently think
> of a way to test this theory.
>
> I suspect systemtap may be the tool to use - anyone have experience of
> using it in this way, or have a recipe they could point me to?
>
> Any other ideas for troubleshooting and gathering info?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> S.
>
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I know its off topic but is there any reason you aren't using Passenger?

 http://www.modrails.com/

Will
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