Thanks for the pointer, Eystein.

I have opened a bug with outputs from a brief run of valgrind on all 3
daemons:
https://cfengine.com/bugtracker/view.php?id=427

I hope this can help you track down the issue. As always, I'm available
to collect more info, or give you access to.

Jonathan


On 20/12/2010 15:11, Eystein Måløy Stenberg wrote:
> Hey,
>
> Yes, we would need more data to check if this is a problem with
> Cfengine, the libraries, and fix any leak.
> Please follow http://www.cfengine.org/pages/troubleshoot#memleak and
> report a bug if you think the problem resides in Cfengine.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Eystein
>
> On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 2:26 PM, Jonathan CLARKE
> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
> wrote:
>
>     On 19/12/2010 20:31, [email protected]
>     <mailto:[email protected]> wrote:
>>     Forum: Cfengine Help
>>     Subject: cf-serverd memory leak still (v3.1.2)
>>     Author: Igor
>>     Link to topic: 
>> https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,19852,19852#msg-19852
>>
>>     Hi!
>>
>>     Looks like memory leak still...
>>
>>     cfengine 3.1.2 on freebsd 7.1 i386/amd64:
>
>     I'm seeing leaks with 3.1.2 on Linux amd64 too. The amounts are
>     less high than Igor's, but I have set up some graphs, which
>     clearly show cf-execd, cf-serverd and cf-monitord growing steadily:
>
>
>
>     This graph follows the RSS size as reported by "ps". Therefore, it
>     is a representation of in-memory pages, roughly speaking.
>
>     I restarted all Cfengine daemons on the 15th. I had to cut the
>     graph off after the 18th, as we ran some unrelated tests on the
>     machine, causing it to start swapping, and muck up the graphs...
>     Sorry.
>
>     This machine is a dedicated machine to monitor Cfengine's daemons
>     : it's a freshly installed Debian 5 (64 bits), no options, just
>     the Cfengine 3.1.2 package installed. There are no connections to
>     cf-serverd. cf-execd runs cf-agent every 5 minutes, which just
>     updates it's promises from another cf-serverd, and checks a few
>     things locally (install packages, check config files, run
>     processes...).
>
>     This is just a short excerpt, but all 3 processes continue to
>     grow, eating up all the RAM there is, then all the swap space, and
>     finally crashing the machine. Of course, I could just restart them
>     every night, but this is a test machine, so I'm not worried about
>     hiding the problem, just observing and fixing it :)
>
>     I'm happy to look into this further with valgrind, or whatever you
>     may need, if the problem can't be reliably reproduced elsewhere (I
>     can even give root access to this VM to someone at Cfengine AS).
>
>     Regards,
>     Jonathan
>
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