[erlang-questions] Erlang OTP 18 memory leak / SSL

Sereysethy TOUCH touch.sereysethy@REDACTED
Sun Sep 20 17:53:43 CEST 2015


Hello,

When do you think a new version erlang 18 will be released which fixes this
problem?

So you suggest that I should build the maint branch? And what to do with
erlang installed on my server?

I will stick with shell. No gui.

Sorry I seem confused. Need more helps here :-)



On Sunday, 20 September 2015, Jesper Louis Andersen <
jesper.louis.andersen@REDACTED> wrote:

> Ingela suggested you try building the "maint" branch, which has a fix for
> the session cache problem (by Ingela :)
>
> simply git pull https://github.com/erlang/otp
>
> checkout the maint branch
>
> build the result. Alterantively, the 'kerl' application (also on github)
> can build Erlang. It has an experimental git-mode which may be useful here.
>
> I think you are looking at the SSL session cache problem.
>
> As for observer: observer:start() will start it:
>
> * You need wx in your Erlang installation, it is a GUI application
> * You need something which can run wx applications. It is somewhat easy in
> a local dev environment, but the shell commands can be useful in contexts
> with no easy GUI-line :)
>
>
>
> On Sun, Sep 20, 2015 at 3:30 PM, Sereysethy TOUCH <
> touch.sereysethy@REDACTED
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','touch.sereysethy@REDACTED');>> wrote:
>
>> Dear Andin,
>>
>> To be honest, I am new to Erlang. So I am sorry sometimes for my naive
>> questions.
>>
>> I just tried to fix and debug erlang code written by another person. I am
>> not sure yet where to look at. Since we dont use anything special about
>> SSL, beside we ask user browser to present certificate and pass it on to
>> our agent backend to process it. I look at the code, it seems nothing is
>> unusual.
>>
>> You said this bug exists since Erlang 17? But why there were no memory
>> leak when it ran on Erlang 17.
>>
>> I did as Jesper Louis Andersen suggested, and I saw there a big amount
>> of memory being used by ssl_manager.
>>
>> 32794           client_ssl_otp_session_cache ordered_set 0      89
>> ssl_manager
>> 36891           server_ssl_otp_session_cache ordered_set 1564   67995
>>  ssl_manager
>> 40993           httpc_manager__session_cookie_db bag   0      299
>>  httpc_manager
>>
>> And it keeps increasing overtime.
>>
>> Can you let me know or pointing me to any documents on how to use
>> observer application?
>>
>> Thanks, Sethy
>>
>> On Sun, Sep 20, 2015 at 5:07 AM, Ingela Andin <ingela.andin@REDACTED
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','ingela.andin@REDACTED');>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> 2015-09-19 18:34 GMT+02:00 Sereysethy TOUCH <touch.sereysethy@REDACTED
>>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','touch.sereysethy@REDACTED');>>:
>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I just recently updated Erlang to latest version OTP 18 on Ubuntu
>>>> server. It uses cowboy (websocket), ranch, ssl, erlydtl & rabbitmq. It used
>>>> to work fine in OTP 17. The program is correctly compiled but during the
>>>> execution the memory kept increasing. I need to restart the process every
>>>> one or two hours to free some memory.
>>>>
>>>> I have read a post here [
>>>> http://erlang.2086793.n4.nabble.com/R18-Unbounded-SSL-Session-ETS-Table-Growth-td4713697.html]
>>>> which discussed about the ssl_session_cache ETS table which can become very
>>>> large.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Well that bug is now fixed for 18.1 and in maint on github. This bug
>>> however has been around for a while so it is unlikly that this bug causes
>>> 18 to behave different from 17.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> The process beam.smp can go up to more than 5G during a few hours of
>>>> executions.
>>>>
>>>> I am not yet sure what is the root cause of this issue.
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone know how to fix this? Or where should I look at?
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> You could try using the observer application to inspect the node, makes
>>> inspecting easy.
>>> Let us know your findings.
>>>
>>> Regards Ingela Erlang/OTP team - Ericsson AB
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks, Sethy
>>>>
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