Possible memory leak?

Anoop Alias anoopalias01 at gmail.com
Fri Mar 8 23:52:50 UTC 2019


Sorry OT -  @wkbrad -  Please contact me off-the-list and we can discuss
this further

On Fri, Mar 8, 2019 at 9:09 PM wkbrad <nginx-forum at forum.nginx.org> wrote:

> Hi Anoop!
>
> I thought you might have been the nDeploy guy and I've been planning on
> bringing this up with you too.  We actually have several servers licensed
> with you.  :)
>
> And they do have the same issue but you're still misunderstanding what the
> problem is.
>
> I completely understand that when the reload happens it should use 2x the
> ram.  That's expected.  What is not expected is that the ram stays at that
> level AFTER the reload is complete.
>
> Let's look at an example from a live Xtendweb server.  Here is the ram
> usage
> after a restart.
>  30.5 MiB +   1.4 GiB =   1.5 GiB       nginx (4)
>
> And here is the ram usage after a reload.
>  28.4 MiB +   2.8 GiB =   2.9 GiB       nginx (4)
>
> The reload is completely finished at that point with no workers in shutting
> down state and it's now using 2x the ram.  Now if I use the binary reload
> process next it goes back down.
>  26.1 MiB +   1.5 GiB =   1.5 GiB       nginx (4)
>
> Again, I'm not talking about what SHOULD be happening.  It's totally normal
> and expected for it to use 2x the ram DURING the reload.  It's not expected
> for it to continue using 2x the ram AFTER the reload is finished.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Posted at Nginx Forum:
> https://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,283216,283317#msg-283317
>
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