Hello,

on a second check, those counter chunks for counters/statistics seems to be from startup, thus not part of a leak.

How long have you been running kamailio? Looking at the pkg stats from previous email, the free part is still a lot, with only about 200k used. It could mean the leak was not making any effect yet.

Cheers,
Daniel

On 10/2/13 10:19 AM, Daniel-Constantin Mierla wrote:
Hello,

the leak is due to keep defining counters or statistics. That should happen only at startup, but if you execute from perl script some function from a kamailio module, it may trigger this issue. Can you share what functions from kamailio are you execute inside the perl script?

Cheers,
Daniel

On 10/2/13 9:26 AM, David Cunningham wrote:
Hi Daniel,

Thank you - I used the restart method and got a whole load of memory information. 10 megabytes of it! I've compressed that and attached it to this email.

Thanks for your help.



On 2 October 2013 17:17, Daniel-Constantin Mierla <miconda@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello,

ahh, right, forgot that it was disabled because it was not safe to use at runtime for worker processes. You have to use:

kamcmd cfg.set_now_int core mem_dump_pkg <pid>

then wait for a bit so that process is receiving a SIP message.

Or, if you restart, the stats are printed in syslog for all processes.

Another alternative is to call pkg_status() or pkg_summary() from cfgutils module in config file, like:

if(src_ip==127.0.0.1 && is_method("OPTIONS") && $rU=="pkgstats") {
  send_reply("200", "OK");
  pkg_summary();
  exit;
}

You can use sipsak to send an options request to "sip:pkgstats@..."

Cheers,
Daniel


On 10/2/13 2:30 AM, David Cunningham wrote:
Hi Daniel,

When I send SIGUSR1 to a worker process nothing is logged. Any ideas there? The following is the output of "sercmd pkg.stats".

{
    entry: 0
    pid: 14570
    rank: 0
    used: 191100
    free: 3731504
    real_used: 462800
}
{
    entry: 1
    pid: 14571
    rank: 1
    used: 202656
    free: 3714236
    real_used: 480068
}
{
    entry: 2
    pid: 14572
    rank: 2
    used: 202720
    free: 3714220
    real_used: 480084
}
{
    entry: 3
    pid: 14573
    rank: 3
    used: 202664
    free: 3714324
    real_used: 479980
}
{
    entry: 4
    pid: 14574
    rank: 4
    used: 202744
    free: 3714100
    real_used: 480204
}
{
    entry: 5
    pid: 14575
    rank: 5
    used: 201908
    free: 3715176
    real_used: 479128
}
{
    entry: 6
    pid: 14576
    rank: 6
    used: 202572
    free: 3714368
    real_used: 479936
}
{
    entry: 7
    pid: 14577
    rank: 7
    used: 202740
    free: 3714488
    real_used: 479816
}
{
    entry: 8
    pid: 14578
    rank: 8
    used: 199760
    free: 3717084
    real_used: 477220
}
{
    entry: 9
    pid: 14579
    rank: 9
    used: 199440
    free: 3722828
    real_used: 471476
}
{
    entry: 10
    pid: 14580
    rank: 10
    used: 199440
    free: 3722828
    real_used: 471476
}
{
    entry: 11
    pid: 14581
    rank: 11
    used: 199440
    free: 3722828
    real_used: 471476
}
{
    entry: 12
    pid: 14582
    rank: 12
    used: 199440
    free: 3722828
    real_used: 471476
}
{
    entry: 13
    pid: 14583
    rank: 13
    used: 199440
    free: 3722828
    real_used: 471476
}
{
    entry: 14
    pid: 14584
    rank: 14
    used: 199440
    free: 3722828
    real_used: 471476
}
{
    entry: 15
    pid: 14585
    rank: 15
    used: 199440
    free: 3722828
    real_used: 471476
}
{
    entry: 16
    pid: 14586
    rank: 16
    used: 199440
    free: 3722828
    real_used: 471476
}
{
    entry: 17
    pid: 14587
    rank: -1
    used: 199400
    free: 3722868
    real_used: 471436
}
{
    entry: 18
    pid: 14588
    rank: -1
    used: 2105844
    free: 3722868
    real_used: 2337944
}
{
    entry: 19
    pid: 14589
    rank: -2
    used: 198552
    free: 3723236
    real_used: 471068
}
{
    entry: 20
    pid: 0
    rank: 0
    used: 209756
    free: 3712368
    real_used: 481936
}
{
    entry: 21
    pid: 14591
    rank: -4
    used: 253660
    free: 3668704
    real_used: 525600
}




On 1 October 2013 22:45, Daniel-Constantin Mierla <miconda@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello,

send SIGUSR1 to one of the worker processes (e.g., UDP listener). The main process of kamailio doesn't process SIP messages, so it is not exposed to leaks.

You can used 'kamcmd pkg.stats" to see statistics about usage of pkg  per each process (older versions have sercmd).

'kamctl ps' gives the list of processes.

Cheers,
Daniel


On 10/1/13 2:35 PM, David Cunningham wrote:
Hi Daniel,

What I copied and pasted is all that's listed when I do a kill -SIGUSR1 on the Kamailio master process. How do I get fuller logs?

Thanks for your help.



On 1 October 2013 21:57, Daniel-Constantin Mierla <miconda@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello,

you gave only the first part of memory log output. The chunks listed there are from startup, thus not part of a leak, because they are not allocated again at runtime.

Can you give the full logs with messages from qm_status? The leaks are typically listed towards the end of those messages.

Yesterday someone else reported a potential leak when using perl module, so it might be something else there. I found one, which is related to an error case, but perhaps you don't get that, otherwise you will notice the error message.

Cheers,
Daniel


On 10/1/13 12:03 PM, David Cunningham wrote:
Hello,

Following up on this after a long break. It seems we are still having a memory leak. We've added the memory debugging options as per the documentation with the following output.
I'm not sure how to read it though - can anyone help? Thank you.

Oct  1 05:58:48 sip0-test /sbin/kamailio[14570]: NOTICE: <core> [main.c:754]: Memory status (pkg):
Oct  1 05:58:48 sip0-test /sbin/kamailio[14570]: NOTICE: qm_status: (0x4019b008):
Oct  1 05:58:48 sip0-test /sbin/kamailio[14570]: NOTICE: qm_status: heap size= 4194304
Oct  1 05:58:48 sip0-test /sbin/kamailio[14570]: NOTICE: qm_status: used= 191100, used+overhead=462800, free=3731504
Oct  1 05:58:48 sip0-test /sbin/kamailio[14570]: NOTICE: qm_status: max used (+overhead)= 480224
Oct  1 05:58:48 sip0-test /sbin/kamailio[14570]: NOTICE: qm_status: dumping all alloc'ed. fragments:
Oct  1 05:58:48 sip0-test /sbin/kamailio[14570]: NOTICE: qm_status:      0. N  address=0x401cf414 frag=0x401cf3fc size=512 used=1
Oct  1 05:58:48 sip0-test /sbin/kamailio[14570]: NOTICE: qm_status:           alloc'd from <core>: str_hash.h: str_hash_alloc(69)
Oct  1 05:58:48 sip0-test /sbin/kamailio[14570]: NOTICE: qm_status:          start check=f0f0f0f0, end check= c0c0c0c0, abcdefed
Oct  1 05:58:48 sip0-test /sbin/kamailio[14570]: NOTICE: qm_status:      1. N  address=0x401cf644 frag=0x401cf62c size=128 used=1
Oct  1 05:58:48 sip0-test /sbin/kamailio[14570]: NOTICE: qm_status:           alloc'd from <core>: str_hash.h: str_hash_alloc(69)
Oct  1 05:58:48 sip0-test /sbin/kamailio[14570]: NOTICE: qm_status:          start check=f0f0f0f0, end check= c0c0c0c0, abcdefed
Oct  1 05:58:48 sip0-test /sbin/kamailio[14570]: NOTICE: qm_status:      2. N  address=0x401cf6f4 frag=0x401cf6dc size=256 used=1
Oct  1 05:58:48 sip0-test /sbin/kamailio[14570]: NOTICE: qm_status:           alloc'd from <core>: counters.c: cnt_hash_add(331)
Oct  1 05:58:48 sip0-test /sbin/kamailio[14570]: NOTICE: qm_status:          start check=f0f0f0f0, end check= c0c0c0c0, abcdefed
Oct  1 05:58:48 sip0-test /sbin/kamailio[14570]: NOTICE: qm_status:      3. N  address=0x401cf824 frag=0x401cf80c size=64 used=1
Oct  1 05:58:48 sip0-test /sbin/kamailio[14570]: NOTICE: qm_status:           alloc'd from <core>: counters.c: init_counters(121)
Oct  1 05:58:48 sip0-test /sbin/kamailio[14570]: NOTICE: qm_status:          start check=f0f0f0f0, end check= c0c0c0c0, abcdefed
Oct  1 05:58:48 sip0-test /sbin/kamailio[14570]: NOTICE: qm_status:      4. N  address=0x401cf894 frag=0x401cf87c size=8 used=1
Oct  1 05:58:48 sip0-test /sbin/kamailio[14570]: NOTICE: qm_status:           alloc'd from <core>: route.c: init_rlist(180)
Oct  1 05:58:48 sip0-test /sbin/kamailio[14570]: NOTICE: qm_status:          start check=f0f0f0f0, end check= c0c0c0c0, abcdefed
Oct  1 05:58:48 sip0-test /sbin/kamailio[14570]: NOTICE: qm_status:      5. N  address=0x401cf8cc frag=0x401cf8b4 size=64 used=1
Oct  1 05:58:48 sip0-test /sbin/kamailio[14570]: NOTICE: qm_status:           alloc'd from <core>: str_hash.h: str_hash_alloc(69)
Oct  1 05:58:48 sip0-test /sbin/kamailio[14570]: NOTICE: qm_status:          start check=f0f0f0f0, end check= c0c0c0c0, abcdefed
Oct  1 05:58:48 sip0-test /sbin/kamailio[14570]: NOTICE: qm_status:      6. N  address=0x401cf93c frag=0x401cf924 size=24 used=1
Oct  1 05:58:48 sip0-test /sbin/kamailio[14570]: NOTICE: qm_status:           alloc'd from <core>: route.c: route_add(159)
Oct  1 05:58:48 sip0-test /sbin/kamailio[14570]: NOTICE: qm_status:          start check=f0f0f0f0, end check= c0c0c0c0, abcdefed
Oct  1 05:58:48 sip0-test /sbin/kamailio[14570]: NOTICE: qm_status:      7. N  address=0x401cf984 frag=0x401cf96c size=8 used=1
Oct  1 05:58:48 sip0-test /sbin/kamailio[14570]: NOTICE: qm_status:           alloc'd from <core>: route.c: init_rlist(180)
Oct  1 05:58:48 sip0-test /sbin/kamailio[14570]: NOTICE: qm_status:          start check=f0f0f0f0, end check= c0c0c0c0, abcdefed
Oct  1 05:58:48 sip0-test /sbin/kamailio[14570]: NOTICE: qm_status:      8. N  address=0x401cf9bc frag=0x401cf9a4 size=64 used=1
Oct  1 05:58:48 sip0-test /sbin/kamailio[14570]: NOTICE: qm_status:           alloc'd from <core>: str_hash.h: str_hash_alloc(69)
Oct  1 05:58:48 sip0-test /sbin/kamailio[14570]: NOTICE: qm_status:          start check=f0f0f0f0, end check= c0c0c0c0, abcdefed
Oct  1 05:58:48 sip0-test /sbin/kamailio[14570]: NOTICE: qm_status:      9. N  address=0x401cfa2c frag=0x401cfa14 size=24 used=1
Oct  1 05:58:48 sip0-test /sbin/kamailio[14570]: NOTICE: qm_status:           alloc'd from <core>: route.c: route_add(159)
Oct  1 05:58:48 sip0-test /sbin/kamailio[14570]: NOTICE: qm_status:          start check=f0f0f0f0, end check= c0c0c0c0, abcdefed
Oct  1 05:58:48 sip0-test /sbin/kamailio[14570]: NOTICE: qm_status:     10. N  address=0x401cfa74 frag=0x401cfa5c size=8 used=1
Oct  1 05:58:48 sip0-test /sbin/kamailio[14570]: NOTICE: qm_status:           alloc'd from <core>: db_id.c: dupl_string(50)
Oct  1 05:58:48 sip0-test /sbin/kamailio[14570]: NOTICE: qm_status:          start check=f0f0f0f0, end check= c0c0c0c0, abcdefed
Oct  1 05:58:48 sip0-test /sbin/kamailio[14570]: NOTICE: qm_status:     11. N  address=0x401cfaac frag=0x401cfa94 size=64 used=1
Oct  1 05:58:48 sip0-test /sbin/kamailio[14570]: NOTICE: qm_status:           alloc'd from <core>: str_hash.h: str_hash_alloc(69)
Oct  1 05:58:48 sip0-test /sbin/kamailio[14570]: NOTICE: qm_status:          start check=f0f0f0f0, end check= c0c0c0c0, abcdefed
Oct  1 05:58:48 sip0-test /sbin/kamailio[14570]: NOTICE: qm_status:     12. N  address=0x401cfb1c frag=0x401cfb04 size=24 used=1
Oct  1 05:58:48 sip0-test /sbin/kamailio[14570]: NOTICE: qm_status:           alloc'd from <core>: route.c: route_add(159)
Oct  1 05:58:48 sip0-test /sbin/kamailio[14570]: NOTICE: qm_status:          start check=f0f0f0f0, end check= c0c0c0c0, abcdefed
Oct  1 05:58:48 sip0-test /sbin/kamailio[14570]: NOTICE: qm_status:     13. N  address=0x401cfb64 frag=0x401cfb4c size=8 used=1
Oct  1 05:58:48 sip0-test /sbin/kamailio[14570]: NOTICE: qm_status:           alloc'd from <core>: route.c: init_rlist(180)
Oct  1 05:58:48 sip0-test /sbin/kamailio[14570]: NOTICE: qm_status:          start check=f0f0f0f0, end check= c0c0c0c0, abcdefed
Oct  1 05:58:48 sip0-test /sbin/kamailio[14570]: NOTICE: qm_status:     14. N  address=0x401cfb9c frag=0x401cfb84 size=64 used=1



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--
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http://voisonics.com/
USA: +1 213 221 1092
UK: +44 (0) 20 3298 1642
Australia: +61 (0) 2 8063 9019

-- 
Daniel-Constantin Mierla - http://www.asipto.com
http://twitter.com/#!/miconda - http://www.linkedin.com/in/miconda
Kamailio Advanced Trainings - Berlin, Nov 25-28; Miami, Nov 18-20, 2013
  - more details about Kamailio trainings at http://www.asipto.com -



--
David Cunningham, Voisonics
http://voisonics.com/
USA: +1 213 221 1092
UK: +44 (0) 20 3298 1642
Australia: +61 (0) 2 8063 9019

-- 
Daniel-Constantin Mierla - http://www.asipto.com
http://twitter.com/#!/miconda - http://www.linkedin.com/in/miconda
Kamailio Advanced Trainings - Berlin, Nov 25-28; Miami, Nov 18-20, 2013
  - more details about Kamailio trainings at http://www.asipto.com -

-- 
Daniel-Constantin Mierla - http://www.asipto.com
http://twitter.com/#!/miconda - http://www.linkedin.com/in/miconda
Kamailio Advanced Trainings - Berlin, Nov 25-28; Miami, Nov 18-20, 2013
  - more details about Kamailio trainings at http://www.asipto.com -