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

[Ingela Andin]

Hello,

2015-09-20 15:24 GMT+02:00 Sereysethy TOUCH <touch.sereysethy@REDACTED>:

> Hello,
>
> I did as what you told me by getting a shell console on the node.
>
> I run memory(). and see ets ate the most memory. And it increased
> overtime. I run ets:i(). and I found out the ssl_manager took a big chunk
> of what memory used.
>
> 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
>
> So I think there is a problem with ssl_manager in Erlang OTP 18.
>
> Any workarounds?
>
>

Ok, the bug I fixed with the session table is on the client side.  But your
big ets table is on the server side.
Session data is by default  fairly long lived (24 h that is the max
recommended time to keep a session by the RFC),
you can set the ssl application variable session_lifetime to make  its
lifetime shorter which should mitigate your problem.
We have a backlog item to make a configurable threshold of max sessions
allowed to be stored in the table, which I am sure will be
implemented fairly soon but alas  not for 18.1.

Regards Ingela Erlang/OTP Team - Ericsson AB



> Sethy
>
> On Sun, Sep 20, 2015 at 2:22 AM, Jesper Louis Andersen <
> jesper.louis.andersen@REDACTED> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 6:34 PM, Sereysethy TOUCH <
>> touch.sereysethy@REDACTED> wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>>
>> 1. Get a shell console on the node
>> 2. call 'memory().' in the shell
>> 3. If it reports ets as the winner, call
>> 4. ets:i().
>>
>> This will give you a nice overview for where to look and verify it is the
>> SSL problem.
>>
>>
>> --
>> J.
>>
>
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