Memory leak in nnrpd (inn-2.3)?

The Hermit Hacker scrappy at hub.org
Fri Jul 16 16:38:17 UTC 1999


With the current INN 2.3 code installed, I'm still getting the occasional
"very large" nnrpd process, and am wondering if this is to be expected, or
if this is a memory leak that needs to be tracked down.

As you can see from the following 'ps axl' listing, by default, the nnrpd
processes are all around 14Meg, except for that first one, at 88Meg :(

hub# ps axl | grep nnrpd
    8 38368 55738   8   2  4 88680 49132 sbwait SN    ??    0:01.09 nnrpd: pm3-56k-42.tht.net ARTICLE (nnrpd)
    8 62455 55738   8   2  4 14660 2556 select SN    ??    0:06.58 nnrpd: 202.61.205.11 next (nnrpd)
    8 62529 55738   7   2  4 14596 4416 select IN    ??    0:00.09 nnrpd: pm2-1-14.tht.net ARTICLE (nnrpd)
    8 69439 55738   8   2  4 14748 5328 sbwait SN    ??    0:00.56 nnrpd: pm1-net17.dyna.trends.ca ARTICLE (nnrpd)
    8 76317 55738   4   2  4 14660 2000 select IN    ??    0:00.19 nnrpd: pm1-net26.dyna.trends.ca ARTICLE (nnrpd)
    8 79094 55738   9   2  4 14596 1348 sbwait SN    ??    0:00.06 nnrpd: pm2-1-1.tht.net LIST (nnrpd)
    8 79804 55738   4   2  4 14632 1756 select IN    ??    0:00.03 nnrpd: clio.trends.ca article (nnrpd)
    8 79975 55738  86   2  4 14596 1364 select SN    ??    0:00.02 nnrpd: news3.buffnet.net connect (nnrpd)
    8 79976 55738  15   2  4 14936 1852 sbwait SN    ??    0:00.03 nnrpd: zoom.cad-micro.com ARTICLE (nnrpd)
    8 79990 55738  83   2  4 14596 1364 select SN    ??    0:00.02 nnrpd: nntp-out.monmouth.com MODE (nnrpd)
    8 79993 55738 183   2  4 14596 1364 select SN    ??    0:00.02 nnrpd: transit.us-va.remarq.com connect (nnrpd)

According to /var/log/news/news.notice, his connection, so far, has
consisted of:

Jul 16 08:35:13 hub nnrpd[38368]: pm3-56k-42.tht.net connect
Jul 16 09:15:48 hub nnrpd[38368]: pm3-56k-42.tht.net group alt.binaries.aoi 21
Jul 16 09:45:17 hub nnrpd[38368]: pm3-56k-42.tht.net group alt.binaries.pictures.bc-series 8
Jul 16 10:19:26 hub nnrpd[38368]: pm3-56k-42.tht.net group alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.13-17 76
Jul 16 11:37:46 hub nnrpd[38368]: pm3-56k-42.tht.net group alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.amateur.female 92


I took a 'gcore' of the process, and grabbed the /proc/pid/map file, and
both are available in ftp://ftp.hub.org/pub/INN-2.3, if this helps in
debugging this...

If there is anything else I can provide, please let me know...if its to be
expected, then I won't worry about it...

Thanks...

Marc G. Fournier                   ICQ#7615664               IRC Nick: Scrappy
Systems Administrator @ hub.org 
primary: scrappy at hub.org           secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org 



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