Memory leak or misunderstanding - rlm_perl?

[Alexander Clouter]

Alan DeKok <aland at deployingradius.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I am running freeradius-2.1.6 with all AAA logick hidden in perl module,
>> thus using rlm_perl.
>> 
>> Having about 1000-10000 client connections per day radiusd consumes about
>> 1Gb of memory per day (I restart it daily).
>> 
>> The only (possibly) important thing - I am using several external modules
>> in my main perl module.
> 
>  Perl's garbage collector isn't perfect.  It may be that you really do
> need to restart to get memory cleaned up.
> 
At the end of the request handling function, it might be work getting 
your script to look at how much memory it has consumed[1] and then 
commit Seppuku; hopefully FreeRADIUS is primed to notice the suicide and 
restart the perl module from scratch.

A trivial fix, but if you have long running state information you might 
need to do some reworking to move some data into a DB file or something 
(*not* an SQL database...please :)

Cheers

[1] http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=115098

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Alexander Clouter
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