[Orca-users] Re: orca memory leak in Solaris 2.5.1

[Rusty Carruth]

"shakthi_2000" <shakthi_2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am running orca version 0.27b2 on a Solaris 2.5.1 machine.
> Within 24 hours from the time the processes start, orca starts
> chewing up memory. I also have a cron job in place to stop orca and
> orcallator and restart them at midnight. By mid afternoon the next 
> day top shows the following:
>  PID USERNAME PRI NICE  SIZE   RES STATE   TIME   WCPU    CPU COMMAND
>  23568 orca    5    0  358M  170M sleep  37:09  4.09%  1.33% orca
>  23579 root    33    0  127M   90M sleep   5:48  0.52% 0.06% 
>  se.sparc.5.5.1
> 
> The perl version is 5.003.
> 
> I was wondering if there anything I could do to keep the memory usage 
> down, or is it just a problem with Solaris 2.5.1?

Its not Solaris 2.5.1:

rcarruth at msfree> uname -a
SunOS msfree 5.5.1 Generic_103640-32 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-5_10

>From top on that machine:

Memory: 246M real, 5648K free, 388M swap, 403M free swap

10765 rcarruth   5    0   12M 9128K sleep 375.9H 15.70% 19.86% orca
 9905 rcarruth  23    0   14M 5256K sleep 121:50  0.08%  0.14% se.sparc.5.5.1

Shoot, I don't even have a clue when I started that process, but
its been a LONG time (look at the cpu time!).  I am certain that its
been running for at least a month, and I *think* I started it *last
year* sometime!

And I'm running orca-0.27b1, so its probably not that.

However, this may be part of the issue:

rcarruth at msfree> perl --version
 
This is perl, version 5.005_03 built for sun4-solaris
rcarruth at msfree> 


And I vaguely recall something about 5.003 and memory...

rc