[Orca-users] procallator, the memory hog

[OG]

This lovelly block of Perl solved the memory leak problem with procallator that comes with Orca 0.27.
Thanks Ian.

Otis

----- Original Message ----
From: Ian Holsman <lists at holsman.net>
To: OG <ogjunk-orca at yahoo.com>
Cc: orca-users at orcaware.com
Sent: Friday, May 12, 2006 7:36:13 PM
Subject: Re: [Orca-users] procallator, the memory hog

I added this to my procallator a while ago.
(I thought it was in the main tree)

if ( !$DEBUG ) {
     use Proc::Daemon;
     Proc::Daemon::Init;
}

This closes all the STD* file handles and sets the process parents  
properly.
(and it also allows initlog to terminate properly)

regards
Ian

On 13/05/2006, at 3:43 AM, OG wrote:

> Just in case anyone is interested.
>
> Two days ago:
>   57648  53m  648 S  0.0  1.3  48:04.29 initlog -q -c /usr/local/ 
> bin/procallator.pl
>
> Now:
>   71448  67m  648 S  0.0  1.7  61:38.64 initlog -q -c /usr/local/ 
> bin/procallator.pl
>
> But this doesn't look like procallator.pl.
> It looks like the memory hog here is this thing called 'initlog'.
>
> Am I the only one with this problem?  This is running on a Fedora  
> Core 3 system.
>
> Thanks,
> Otis
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: OG <ogjunk-orca at yahoo.com>
> To: orca-users at orcaware.com
> Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 1:08:06 AM
> Subject: [Orca-users] procallator, the memory hog
>
> Hello,
>
> I'll be trying the latest Orca snapshot shortly, but am wondering  
> if Procallator has a known memory leak issue?
> I'm asking because I've been running procallator from 0.27 version  
> for about 7-10 days, and it went from using only a few MB or RAM to  
> using over 50MB of RAM.
> For example:
>   57648  53m  648 S  0.0  1.3  48:04.29 initlog -q -c /usr/local/ 
> bin/procallator.pl
>
> The first two numbers are memory (VIRT and RES from top).
>
> Is this a known issue?
> If this is not the appropriate place to deal with procallator,  
> please let me know.
>
> Thanks,
> Otis
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Orca-users mailing list
> Orca-users at orcaware.com
> http://www.orcaware.com/mailman/listinfo/orca-users
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Orca-users mailing list
> Orca-users at orcaware.com
> http://www.orcaware.com/mailman/listinfo/orca-users