Memory leak or misunderstanding - rlm_perl?

[Mihail Vasiliev]

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 :)

Well, I actualy already do it - I store the actual data in memcached,
running as a stand-alone process. Well, thank you anyway.

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