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

[Loïc Hoguin]

As far as I understand, 18.1 will be released very soon, maybe this 
week, so perhaps your problems will be gone in a few days without having 
to do anything. :-)

On 09/20/2015 06:04 PM, Sereysethy TOUCH wrote:
> FYI, I use erlang.mk <http://erlang.mk> to build my application.
>
> On Sun, Sep 20, 2015 at 10:53 PM, Sereysethy TOUCH
> <touch.sereysethy@REDACTED <mailto:touch.sereysethy@REDACTED>> wrote:
>
>     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
>     <mailto: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> 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> wrote:
>
>                 Hi!
>
>                 2015-09-19 18:34 GMT+02:00 Sereysethy TOUCH
>                 <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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