[OpenSIPS-Users] Chasing down unreleased memory

Tue Oct 2 03:13:52 EDT 2018

Hi, Jock!

I am pretty busy these days, so I couldn't pay too much attention to 
this thread. Nevertheless, I will try to prioritize it this week and get 
back to you.
I have also tracked down the pkg mem leak to the mc_compact() module, 
but I can't pinpoint for now exactly the issue. Although I have some 
assumptions, I can't be sure until I run some tests.
If I need extra info during my debug, I will definitely let you know, so 
keep an eye on this thread.

Best regards,
Răzvan

On 10/1/18 9:14 PM, Jock McKechnie wrote:
> Greetings;
> 
> I should have done this last week but, to be honest, it just didn't
> occur to me. I pulled the compression module out (and commented out
> mc_compact()) and re-ran my tests and the memory usage was massively
> lower (losing 100k of memory per minute vs 3-5MB/minute) and within a
> few minutes of calling ceasing almost all of the memory was released
> (went from 42MB down to 3.8MB within 6 minutes).
> 
> So it appears that there's something leaking in the compression module.
> 
> I'm going to poke around a few more tests (include compression.so
> without actually calling it, etc) but I wanted to pass this on as
> there appears to be a bug that needs addressing.
> 
> Is there anything I can provide that might be useful in debugging this?
> 
> As always, thank you for your help.
> 
>   - Jock
> 
> On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 8:12 AM, Jock McKechnie
> <jock.mckechnie at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Thank you very much, Răzvan;
>>
>> We are using the compression module for mc_compact(). We use SIP
>> headers for passing around data (don't ask) and the compact headers
>> are mandatory or else we hit MTU/fragmentation problems. We're on the
>> cusp of moving to SIP/TCP but haven't gotten there quite yet.
>> The mc_compact() lives in the main route[1] block and is simply this, in whole:
>>      mc_compact("P-Asserted-Identity|Remote-Party-ID|X-UCID");
>>
>> And my apologies for not including the shm dump segment - please find it below.
>> https://pastebin.com/itSTER7Y
>>
>> Let me know what else I can provide, this is fairly easy to replicate
>> (although it takes about an hour of runtime pummeling it to get nice
>> easy to read dumps). Thank you, again, very much.
>>
>>   - Jock
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 3:01 AM, Răzvan Crainea <razvan at opensips.org> wrote:
>>> Hi, Jock!
>>>
>>> I think you are actually heating two memory leaks: one in private memory and
>>> one in shared memory.
>>> In the memory dump you sent I can spot a pkg mem related to (I believe) the
>>> compression module. Can you tell me what functions of the compression module
>>> you are using and what flags are you using for them?
>>>
>>> Besides that, you claim there is a shared memory leak as well. Can you send
>>> us the logs for the shared memory? They are dumped by the first process
>>> (attendant) and should start with the string "Memory status (shm):". Can you
>>> post those logs as well?
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Razvan
>>>
>>>
>>> On 9/20/18 9:43 PM, Jock McKechnie wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Greetings OpenSIPS gurus;
>>>>
>>>> I've run into an issue that I'm not making any real headway with on my
>>>> own. I have an OpenSIPS 2.4.2 running on CentOS7 that does not appear
>>>> to be releasing the bulk of its shared memory when calls die off.
>>>> Eventually OpenSIPS runs itself out of shared memory and goes beserk
>>>> when it can't reclaim memory for new transactions, or I've also seen
>>>> the kernel oomkiller take it down.
>>>>
>>>> The setup is, as mentioned, a 2.4.2 which has a chunk of perl living
>>>> on its back that handles some API directed call decisions. Because of
>>>> the inevitable delay in the API lookups I am running a large number of
>>>> threads (100) to ensure that I don't start dropping packets under high
>>>> levels of load (50 CPS+ - until I bumped children counts up I was
>>>> seeing packets being ignored which got the End User very excitable). I
>>>> appreciate having lots of children amplifies memory usage but my
>>>> belief is during regular load on our side (~6000 calls at ~30 - 40CPS)
>>>> I should have a full day's runtime easily w/o running into problems.
>>>> The issue is that because the memory is not released overnight it
>>>> starts the next day with half its shared memory gone, and then things
>>>> go to pot the next day when it runs through all its remaining shared
>>>> memory.
>>>>
>>>> I have it configured for a very large (I think) amount of memory to
>>>> attempt to compensate short-term - 2048MB shared memory, 128MB package
>>>> memory. This is not a well thought-out number, just me throwing RAM at
>>>> the problem. (For reference this is on a VM running with 4 cores and
>>>> 4096MB of RAM)
>>>>
>>>> I have graphed the memory stats out of the FIFO, after enabling
>>>> memstats and DBG_MALLOC/etc. The graphs can be found here:
>>>> https://imgur.com/a/oapKYJW
>>>>
>>>> You'll see that the first graph, the main shmem:, shows the usage gets
>>>> tied up and remains after calls die off (these examples run for 20
>>>> minutes after the calls stopped - but I can leave it overnight and the
>>>> shmem: usage won't drop). This being said, the other graphed modules
>>>> show that it releases memory correctly after calls quit like they
>>>> should. None of the other modules graphed (eg, _all_ of the modules I
>>>> was using in OpenSIPS) showed no significant usage and I've omitted
>>>> them.
>>>>
>>>> Interesting that the 'perl' module shows no stats ever which makes me
>>>> wonder if the stats on this module works. I am not storing anything
>>>> inside perl, besides lots of local session variables, and all channel
>>>> variables are pushed back into OpenSIPS AVPs, but I assume there must
>>>> be some memory overhead, although it may not significantly change.
>>>>
>>>> When I shut OpenSIPS down I get child dumps like the following: (I've
>>>> included only one for brevity, but they're all much of a muchness)
>>>> https://pastebin.com/KG2qxxBa
>>>>
>>>> If I'm reading this right (and there's a strong possibility I'm
>>>> misunderstanding what I'm looking at) the memory is tied up in io_wait
>>>> and the parser. I'm not sure what this signifies, however.
>>>>
>>>> So I guess what I'm asking is:
>>>> Am I understanding what I'm looking at correctly and that OpenSIPS is
>>>> not releasing its shared memory which causes it to run out of memory
>>>> quicker the following day? (Which lines up with the symptoms of
>>>> shorter runtimes before failure)
>>>>
>>>> Based on the dumps where should I look for the source of this issue?
>>>>
>>>> Finally, and unrelated to the above, I attempted to mail the official
>>>> OpenSIPS peeps to talk about paid support but none of the 'contact us'
>>>> submits appear to work - when I click on the submit button it changes
>>>> shade but does not appear to act. Certainly I never received any
>>>> response. If there was a direct eMail address I could send to that
>>>> would be preferable.
>>>>
>>>> As always, my thanks for your time.
>>>>
>>>>    - Jock
>>>>
>>>> PS -
>>>> List of modules I'm using in this config:loadmodule "signaling.so"
>>>> loadmodule "sl.so"
>>>> loadmodule "tm.so"
>>>> loadmodule "rr.so"
>>>> loadmodule "maxfwd.so"
>>>> loadmodule "textops.so"
>>>> loadmodule "uri.so"
>>>> loadmodule "mi_fifo.so"
>>>> loadmodule "siptrace.so"
>>>> loadmodule "sipmsgops.so"
>>>> loadmodule "dialog.so"
>>>> loadmodule "uac_auth.so"
>>>> loadmodule "uac.so"
>>>> loadmodule "perl.so"
>>>> loadmodule "acc.so"
>>>> loadmodule "proto_hep.so"
>>>> loadmodule "proto_udp.so"
>>>> loadmodule "compression.so"
>>>>
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