1748050 Members
5210 Online
108757 Solutions
New Discussion юеВ

Memory leak issue

 
Atul Goel
Frequent Advisor

Memory leak issue

Attached graph shows the memory data of my binary run for few days. Data is collected using glance. Can any inference be drawn from the data. That is wether there is a memory leak, corruption or fragmentation

13 REPLIES 13
Atul Goel
Frequent Advisor

Re: Memory leak issue

Wrong file attached in last post.
Attaching the excel file in zip format
Kapil Jha
Honored Contributor

Re: Memory leak issue

I am not sure what field are there exactly in the XL sheet.
What exactly is the problem are you running out of memory.
What does glance -m says do you have lots of page fault.
Any other observation.

BR,
Kapil
I am in this small bowl, I wane see the real world......
Steven E. Protter
Exalted Contributor

Re: Memory leak issue

Shalom,

Try the memory leak detector for HP-UX.

http://www.hpux.ws/?p=8

SEP
Steven E Protter
Owner of ISN Corporation
http://isnamerica.com
http://hpuxconsulting.com
Sponsor: http://hpux.ws
Twitter: http://twitter.com/hpuxlinux
Founder http://newdatacloud.com
Atul Goel
Frequent Advisor

Re: Memory leak issue

Hi Kapil,
Actually problem is as observed from the top the Resident memory size of my process is increasing. But,i ncrease is random some time it is stable for 2 hrs some time more then that. I have checked the business logic many time, even tried wdb but unable to find any memory related issue. I am not sure wether actually there is a problem in my code or it is HP related problem? Whether it is memory leak, corruption of memory fragmentation. From the data first i want to be sure what actually is the problem then would like to go for fixing it

The sheet i have attached has the VSS, RSS, DATA VSS, DATA RSS field as observed from glance at interval of 5 minute
Kapil Jha
Honored Contributor

Re: Memory leak issue

Have u tried the link given above, it would help u.
I have couple of more questions.
Is this graph always going UP, does Resident memory (CODE+DATA) coming down anytime or going up.
If its coming down sometime to its real level then i would say that there is no memory leak and if thats going up and up and up.
It would suggest memory leak.

The graph you shared can lead to anlysis that there is leak but it we willl have to see broad picture over long period of time.

Since when u facing the issue.
Any changes in server??

BR,
Kapil+
I am in this small bowl, I wane see the real world......
Dennis Handly
Acclaimed Contributor

Re: Memory leak issue

If you have heap fragmentation you should look at the following thread:
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1351858

Calling mallopt(3) and adding the values will show you if the amount of free space increase but used space is the same.

>tried wdb but unable to find any memory related issue.

If WDB doesn't report any leaks, it's fragmentation.
What HP-UX version are you using? You may be able to use MallocNextGen.
Dennis Handly
Acclaimed Contributor

Re: Memory leak issue

>ME: If you have heap fragmentation you should look at the following thread:

Hmm, that was your thread, it would have been helpful to mention that. Is this the same problem?
Atul Goel
Frequent Advisor

Re: Memory leak issue

"Is this graph always going UP, does Resident memory (CODE+DATA) coming down anytime or going up."
>>>>>>>>>>Yes graph is going up


The graph you shared can lead to anlysis that there is leak but it we willl have to see broad picture over long period of time.
>>>>The graph is of data collected over 11 days of run

Any changes in server??
>>>No changes in the server


What HP-UX version are you using?
>>>B.11.23

You may be able to use MallocNextGen
>>>mallocnextgen cannot be used
Dennis Handly
Acclaimed Contributor

Re: Memory leak issue

>mallocnextgen cannot be used

It would be helpful if you could explain why?

Also, you could install it as an experiment to see if it even solves your problem. This may explain what kind of fragmentation you don't have.