[Orca-users] Re: memory leak

[Berezin, Dmitry]

Well, one or two hundred megs would be OK, but I'm talking about
gigabytes!!!
Here is the snapshot of orca running for just about 2 days:

ps -o user,pid,ppid,vsz,stime,tty,time,etime,args -p 5120

 USER   PID  PPID     VSZ   STIME TT     TIME     ELAPSED COMMAND
 orca  5120     1 3594784  May_28 ?  05:17:40  1-23:51:00
/usr/local/bin/perl -w /opt/orca/bin/orca -d /opt/orca/lib/orcallator.cfg

It has already grabbed over 3GB of memory. 
...and it only graphs 3 systems in this installation.
Again, I did not have this problem with the previous version.

  Blair?

Thank you,

  -Dmitry.

>> I too seem to be running into a memory leak with Orca on Solaris 8.  Orca
>> was holding steady yesterday for a while at 9MB, but this morning it is
>> using 136MB!  Using Orca/Orcallator, I can tell that Orca dramatically
>> stepped up its memory usage twice, about three and nine hours after it
>> started.  Other than those jumps, its memory usage appears to be stable.
>
> Orca/perl does a poor job of releasing memory usage.  If you run orca in
> daemon mode, I suggest you try restarting it automatically at regular
> individuals to clear memory usage.  I have a cron that does this daily.  I
> have not had any problems with graphs (about 300 systems) doing this, but
> other may have.