[Freeswitch-dev] memory leak in freeswitch?

[Brian West]

Not sure we can say this enough.  Report bugs to jira. 

/b

On Oct 12, 2012, at 7:23 AM, rentmycoder rentmycoder wrote:

> Hi guys,
> 
> I've found a memory leak, and I need your great help to find why is
> this happening...
> The situation is simple: I execute a simple bash script using lua
> popen function as documented in wiki on an extension from the xml
> dialplan...
> After 1000 calls the memory usage gets 60Mb and after 10.000 calls, 120mb...
> Freeswitch becomes very unresponsive and after a time the sip profiles
> stop working...
> If I uncomment the popen call in lua, memory leak does not occure...
> 
> The lua script:
> 
> function shell(c)
>   local o, h
>   h = assert(io.popen(c,"r"))
>   o = h:read("*all")
>   h:close()
>   return o
> end
> sesson:answer();
> while(session.ready()) {
> 	local testvar=shell(/opt/test.sh)
> 	session:sleep(1000);
> }
> sesson:hangup();
> 
> 
> 
> The test.sh script:
> !#/bin/bash
> echo 12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890
> 
> Thats all... Tha script just writes to standard output and the lua
> script reads it into a variable...
> 
> I would like to use this mechanism to communicate with an external process...
> This worked well with asterisk anyway...
> 
> Question#1: what is the reason of this memory usage and how to fix it?
> Question#2: if not possible, how to communicate with an external
> process preferably via TCP?
> I've tried lua sockets, but same memory leaking occurred...
> 
> Tested on: Freeswitch 1.2.3 on debian6 32bit, x86, 4GbRAM
> Stress test environment: another FS instance registers as a user and
> start calling target extension with a random (30-60 sec) call
> timeout...
> Monitors call count and if call count falls below 100, starts new
> calls as needed...
> So there are always 100 live concurrent incoming calls on the test
> system... which maximum length of 1 minute.
> 
> Thanks a lot...
> John
> 
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