[Jackit-devel] Re: [PlanetCCRMA] jack memory leak?

[Mark Knecht]

Jeremy,
   Kai took this note to the jack list faster than I wanted. I'm a newbie
(60 days maybe?) and not even sure of these results, so please, please,
please do not take any of this too seriously.

   I actually asked my first questions on the Redhat install lists just to
make sure I wasn't totally off base, and I'm still not 100% sure it's really
even jack, so let's not have anyone react in any strong way to me asking a
question.

   I typically have these machines up for days. Over those periods of time I
get to the point where top is telling me that I have 512MB or DRAM and 490MB
is being used. However, during those days I will run many applications.
However, I seem to close them and the memory usage persists, so I asked
about jack. I close jack and sometimes the memory usage goes down a lot, but
not necessarily down to clean boot levels.

   The kernel I'm using is from the Planet.

   6 of the jackd processes say 36092 right now. One says 1040. I'm
suspicious when 6 processes with the same name have the same size. Seems
weird to me, but that could be by design. I don't know.

   I'm a user, not a programmer, so keep instructions really simple. I'll
try out anything people want me to. I think it's likely to be something else
anyway.

   And please, please, please! Do not take any of this seriously!! Please!!

Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeremy Hall [mailto:jhall@UU.NET]
Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 3:14 PM
To: Kai Vehmanen
Cc: Mark Knecht; PlanetCCRMA (E-mail);
jackit-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Jackit-devel] Re: [PlanetCCRMA] jack memory leak?


What about the jackd processes? Did they consume more memory? Did the
amount of buffers increase? Do you have a solid kernel and you don't
suspect VM issues?

_J

In the new year, Kai Vehmanen wrote:
> Did you use jack during the 4 hours (and if yes, how) or was it running
> idle? I've run the current CVS-version of jackd under valgrind (memory
> debugger) and it didn't detect any notable memory leaks.
>
> OTOH, although valgrind is a superb tool, it's not 100% perfect
> (especially with complex apps like jackd), so leaks are still a
> possibility.
>
> On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Mark Knecht wrote:
>
> >    I'm early in looking for this, but wondered if anyone else has seen
any
> > evidence of jack having a memory leak? I've noticed over the course of a
day
> > or two that memory is getting used up and not released, at least
according
> > to 'top'. In most of those cases I've run lots of applications and
couldn't
> > say who the culprit was, and I still really can't.
> >
> >    However, this morning I rebooted my machine and tried an experiment.
> >
> > 1) Reboot, open 1 Eterm, and run top - 50128K used
> >
> > 2) Start Jack (using PlanetCCRMA jackstart, if important) - 84776K used
> >
> > 3) 4 hours later - 87380 used
> >
> >    It's not a perfect experiment as I used the Eterm that was open to
run
> > nslookup and dig a few times, but it is interesting.
> >
> >    Can anyone else confirm or deny this?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Mark
> >
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