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

Loïc Hoguin essen@REDACTED
Mon Sep 21 09:11:30 CEST 2015


You need the dev library of OpenSSL when you compile Erlang, otherwise 
crypto, public_key and ssl won't be available.

On 09/21/2015 09:04 AM, Sereysethy TOUCH wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I use erlang.mk <http://erlang.mk> to build my application. After I
> successfully built erlang from maint branch using kerl, when I compiled
> my application, I got this error:
>
> My erlang is Erlang/OTP 18 [erts-7.0.3] [source-5991161] [64-bit]
> [smp:4:4] [async-threads:10] [hipe] [kernel-poll:false]
>
> Failed to solve release:
>
>   Dependency ssl is specified as a dependency but is not reachable by
> the system.
>
>
> Any ideas?
>
>
> On Sun, Sep 20, 2015 at 11:18 PM, Loïc Hoguin <essen@REDACTED
> <mailto:essen@REDACTED>> wrote:
>
>     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> <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>
>         <mailto: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>
>              <mailto: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
>         <mailto: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
>         <mailto:ingela.andin@REDACTED>> wrote:
>
>                          Hi!
>
>                          2015-09-19 18:34 GMT+02:00 Sereysethy TOUCH
>                          <touch.sereysethy@REDACTED
>         <mailto: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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