[OpenSIPS-Users] troubleshooting memory problems

[Ovidiu Sas]

Try 'make realclean' before a 'make install'.  This should clean up
completely the repo.

Regards,
Ovidiu Sas

On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 11:45 AM, Richard Revels <rrevels at bandwidth.com> wrote:
> Yep.  Did a make clean and make all before make install.  I think its a little deeper than that.
>
>
> On May 27, 2010, at 11:30 AM, Bogdan-Andrei Iancu wrote:
>
>> Richard Revels wrote:
>>> I got an error when starting up with only qm_malloc enabled.  Was planning to mention that a little later.  Yeah, I should have gone a bit deeper to get the memory pointer that is alloc'd / free'd but am using this as a starting point.  I'll go through the wiki steps over the weekend.
>>>
>>> opensips: ERROR:core:version_control: module compile flags mismatch for avpops
>>>
>> ^^^^^^ be sure you recompile all modules and core !!!
>>
>>> #012core: STATS: Off, USE_IPV6, USE_TCP, DISABLE_NAGLE, USE_MCAST, SHM_MEM, SHM_MMAP, PKG_MALLOC, F_MALLOC, DBG_QM_MALLOC, FAST_LOCK-ADAPTIVE_WAIT
>>>
>>> #012module: STATS: Off, USE_IPV6, USE_TCP, DISABLE_NAGLE, USE_MCAST, SHM_MEM, SHM_MMAP, PKG_MALLOC, F_MALLOC, DBG_QM_MALLOC, DBG_F_MALLOC, FAST_LOCK-ADAPTIVE_WAIT
>>>
>>>
>>> Richard
>>>
>>>
>>> On May 27, 2010, at 10:35 AM, Bogdan-Andrei Iancu wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hi Richard,
>>>>
>>>> Richard Revels wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> In Makefile.defs uncomment
>>>>>
>>>>>        -DDBG_QM_MALLOC \
>>>>>        -DDBG_F_MALLOC \
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> use only  DDBG_QM_MALLOC !!
>>>>
>>>>> In script set
>>>>>
>>>>> debug=6
>>>>> memlog=6
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Restart and let run for a while.  Then
>>>>>
>>>>> cat /var/log/opensips-msg | egrep 'freeing|DBG:core:fm_malloc.*called' | sed -e 's/.*free.*\: \(.*\)/\1-mfree/' -e 's/.*malloc.*\: \(.*\)/\1-malloc/' | sort | uniq -c
>>>>>
>>>>> Adjust path for wherever you are logging of course.  Your output will have something like
>>>>>
>>>>>  3015 parse_contact(81)-malloc
>>>>>  3015 parse_contact(81)-mfree
>>>>>  3015 parse_contacts(192)-malloc
>>>>>  3015 parse_contacts(192)-mfree
>>>>> 19592 parse_from_header(63)-malloc
>>>>> 19592 parse_from_header(63)-mfree
>>>>> 335368 parse_headers(309)-malloc
>>>>> 335368 parse_headers(309)-mfree
>>>>>
>>>>> for all the calls that are fine.  Then something like
>>>>>
>>>>> 14922 do_parse_rr_body(65)-malloc
>>>>>  8989 do_parse_rr_body(65)-mfree
>>>>>
>>>>> or
>>>>>
>>>>>  9016 sip_msg_cloner(437)-malloc
>>>>>  6003 sip_msg_cloner(437)-mfree
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> That is not relevant as a mem block can be allocated in function X and
>>>> freed in function Y, so you cannot correlate the numbers.
>>>>
>>>>> for calls that need further looking into.  You'll probably want to go grep out the problem values in the log to get more information about what's calling them.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm chasing a fairly nasty memory leak (shared memory) right now and thought I would document / share some of the methods we use for this type of thing.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> See:  http://www.opensips.org/Resources/DocsTsMem - try to get a dump to
>>>> see if there are leaks.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Bogdan
>>>>
>>>>> Richard
>>>>>
>>>>>
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