Re: Debugging leaking memory in Postgresql 13.2/Postgis 3.1 - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Paul Ramsey
Subject Re: Debugging leaking memory in Postgresql 13.2/Postgis 3.1
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Msg-id 32593FA7-5D1C-4AEF-8584-C8F630E7AE8A@cleverelephant.ca
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In response to Re: Debugging leaking memory in Postgresql 13.2/Postgis 3.1  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Debugging leaking memory in Postgresql 13.2/Postgis 3.1  (Stephan Knauss <pgsql@stephans-server.de>)
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> On Mar 31, 2021, at 11:24 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>
> Stephan Knauss <pgsql@stephans-server.de> writes:
>> Hello Tom, the output below looks similar to the OOM output you
>> expected. Can you give a hint how to interpret the results?
>
> Looks like the answer is that wherever the leak is, it's not accounted
> for by this info; none of those contexts are particularly large.
>
> Based on nearby threads, it occurs to me to ask whether you have JIT
> enabled, and if so whether turning it off helps.  There seems to be
> a known leak of the code fragments generated by that in some cases.
>
> If that's not it, then the leak must be accumulating through plain
> old malloc calls.  There's not much of that in the core backend
> (although if you use ispell text search dictionaries, maybe [1] is
> relevant), so my suspicions would next fall on any extensions you
> might be using.

Would be interested in the queries being run. We have a reproduceable leak in <-> geography operator that we have been
unableto track down.  

P

>
>             regards, tom lane
>
> [1] https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git&a=commitdiff&h=eba939551
>
>




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