[pve-devel] pvestatd keeps crashing with latest git

[Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG]

Am 26.10.2012 08:31, schrieb Dietmar Maurer:
> Strange - any idea why it use that much memory?
>
> We restart pvestatd when it uses to much RSS memory, because there
> is a memory leak somewhere.
>
> Seems you installation trigger that memory leak quite early.

Yes it seems like that.

After a fresh reboot it looks like this:
Oct 26 09:03:25 cloud1-1203 pvestatd[17145]: starting server
Oct 26 09:06:45 cloud1-1203 pvestatd[17145]: restarting server after 21 
cycles to reduce memory usage (free 36704256 bytes)
Oct 26 09:06:45 cloud1-1203 pvestatd[17145]: server shutdown (restart)
Oct 26 09:06:46 cloud1-1203 pvestatd[17145]: restarting server
Oct 26 09:06:56 cloud1-1203 pvestatd[17145]: restarting server after 2 
cycles to reduce memory usage (free 37646336 bytes)
Oct 26 09:06:56 cloud1-1203 pvestatd[17145]: server shutdown (restart)
Oct 26 09:06:57 cloud1-1203 pvestatd[17145]: restarting server
Oct 26 09:07:01 cloud1-1203 pmxcfs[2068]: [status] notice: received log
Oct 26 09:07:07 cloud1-1203 pvestatd[17145]: restarting server after 2 
cycles to reduce memory usage (free 37646336 bytes)
Oct 26 09:07:07 cloud1-1203 pvestatd[17145]: server shutdown (restart)
Oct 26 09:07:08 cloud1-1203 pvestatd[17145]: restarting server
Oct 26 09:07:18 cloud1-1203 pvestatd[17145]: restarting server after 2 
cycles to reduce memory usage (free 37646336 bytes)
Oct 26 09:07:18 cloud1-1203 pvestatd[17145]: server shutdown (restart)
Oct 26 09:07:19 cloud1-1203 pvestatd[17145]: restarting server
Oct 26 09:07:29 cloud1-1203 pvestatd[17145]: restarting server after 2 
cycles to reduce memory usage (free 37646336 bytes)
Oct 26 09:07:29 cloud1-1203 pvestatd[17145]: server shutdown (restart)
Oct 26 09:07:30 cloud1-1203 pvestatd[17145]: restarting server
.

and so on pvestatd restarts every 10 seconds.

Stefan