[dancer-users] Debugging memory leaks

[Hermann Calabria]

We have experienced the same issue -- memory leaks -- with our Dancer-based app.  Not sure if it's Dancer, underlying Perl, or UWSGI itself, but haven't been able to debug and would certainly appreciate any tips!

As a workaround, we use the reload-on-rss option on UWSGI to reload bloated workers.  Here's a recipe, with sample settings:

processes = 6             # have 6 workers loaded simultaneously
reload-on-rss = 800    # if a worker reaches 800MB RSS allocated, reload it after it finishes.
harakiri = 120              # (for good measure) hung workers die after 120 seconds

The reload-on-rss setting obviously depends on the size of your app, with a bit of headroom for it to bloat  until it gets restarted.  Make sure (# of processes) * (reload-on-rss) < (available memory).


On 3/29/2021 9:39:58 AM, Zahir Lalani <zahirlalani at oliver.agency> wrote:
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Hi all

Wondering if I can get some guidance. Our application is growing in use and have recently found that UWSGI runs out of worker resources - but when we use uwsgitop, its more that memory has shot up. The only way to resolve is a restart of uwsgi.

That sounds like a memory leak, but I am not sure what tools can help me in that regard. I assumed that Perl was quite good at cleanup, but something is not right here.

Any guidance appreciated

Z
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