Mongrel users - Sep 2007 - Mongrel and Memory usage.

Hi,

I am using mongrel for a long time... But just now I see a problem. I am
running 3 instances using mongrel_cluster and nginx as a reverse proxy. When
I start the cluster I have a memory usage of 20MB per instance... In the end
of the day this usage is something about 230MB for each instance. It should
be a memory leak?

Thanks for the help.

-- 
Fernando Lujan
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Fernando,
> I am using mongrel for a long time... But just now I see a problem.  
> I am running 3 instances using mongrel_cluster and nginx as a  
> reverse proxy. When I start the cluster I have a memory usage of  
> 20MB per instance... In the end of the day this usage is something  
> about 230MB for each instance. It should be a memory leak?
This is most probably a memory leak, but not necessarily a mongrel  
related issue.

You should check your app with bleak_house[1] or any other memory  
profiling tool to see, where the leak comes from. I had the same  
problem and the leak was caused by ferret[2]. Some native extensions  
(like rmagick) might be the problem.

Ben

[1] http://blog.evanweaver.com/files/doc/fauna/bleak_house/files/ 
README.html
[2] http://blog.omdb-beta.org/2007/7/29/tracking-down-a-memory-leak- 
in-ferret-0-11-4

Here''s another possibility that I encountered before I was smarter
(heh)

Are you providing download capabilities of large files.  I manage a 
support site for firmware downloads and other documents.  Before I 
discovered the X-Sendfile header, mongrel was loading and serving the 
files.  I had MAJOR memory spikes.  Now that Apache is grabbing that 
request (and sending the file) before proxying the request to Mongrel, 
no more problems.

matte - webmonkey
webmaster at ruckuswireless.com

Benjamin Krause wrote:
> Fernando,
>
>   
>> I am using mongrel for a long time... But just now I see a problem.  
>> I am running 3 instances using mongrel_cluster and nginx as a  
>> reverse proxy. When I start the cluster I have a memory usage of  
>> 20MB per instance... In the end of the day this usage is something  
>> about 230MB for each instance. It should be a memory leak?
>>     
>
> This is most probably a memory leak, but not necessarily a mongrel  
> related issue.
>
> You should check your app with bleak_house[1] or any other memory  
> profiling tool to see, where the leak comes from. I had the same  
> problem and the leak was caused by ferret[2]. Some native extensions  
> (like rmagick) might be the problem.
>
> Ben
>
> [1] http://blog.evanweaver.com/files/doc/fauna/bleak_house/files/ 
> README.html
> [2] http://blog.omdb-beta.org/2007/7/29/tracking-down-a-memory-leak- 
> in-ferret-0-11-4
>
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