Forum: Typo Typo's memory growth

I'm having trouble with Typo growing roughly linearly with the number of
requests, even if the requests are all for the index page.  The first
hit results in slightly more growth (~11MB) which is understandable. 
But
after that each request increases memory usage by ~2MB, all the way up 
to
100 requests.

Here's a graph of memory usage over number of requests:

http://bit.ly/YkoV0O
(The numbers that went into this graph are below.)

So far, the only tool I have to mitigate this unbounded memory growth is
the PassengerMaxRequests directive.

I see some emails from a long while back about this, but they refer to
blog posts that are no longer available:

* Steve Longdo: 
http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/typo-list/2006-Augu...
* Paul R Brown: 
http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/typo-list/2006-Augu...

I tried some profiling with memprof.  I noticed that several more
ActiveRecord::Relation objects are hanging around after each request.
Each request leaks two more relations for the Article model, for 
example.
But I haven't been able to find what's holding references to those on 
the
heap.  Perhaps I'm doing something wrong: First of all, my runtime
object_ids don't match what memprof dumps in JSON, and second of all,
walking memprof's JSON heap dump from globals indicates that these
relations are not actually reachable.  As I understand, MRI 1.8.7's
mark-and-sweep GC should free anything that's unreachable.  Not sure why
that doesn't add up.  Here's how I'm walking the heap:

https://gist.github.com/mcary/5036169

Has anyone else:

(a) seen this behavior of memory growth?
(b) figured out how to keep the memory footprint bounded?

When I compare to something like Enki blog, I see that after about two
requests, the memory usage remains constant no matter how many requests 
I
make, so it's not an issue that applies to all Rails apps.  (But Typo 
has
so many more features than Enki that I would not want to have to
re-implement.)

Thanks,
Marcel


Data from graph linked above (# requests vs. KB RSS Memory):

Trial 1
0   101376
1   112368
2   114540
3   115336
4   116164
5   118564
10  129260
20  147240
30  166068
40  224064
50  241928
60  261136
70  279324
80  296388
90  313772
100 332036

Trial 2
0   101376
1   113856
2   114556
3   116672
4   119772
5   120716
10  130544
20  145788
30  163160
40  224952
50  243680
60  261700
70  280684
80  298232
90  314856
100 334492

Le 26 fvr. 2013  15:16, marcel <marcel@oak.homeunix.org> a crit :

> I'm having trouble with Typo growing roughly linearly with the number of 
requests, even if the requests are all for the index page.  The first hit results 
in slightly more growth (~11MB) which is understandable.  But after that each 
request increases memory usage by ~2MB, all the way up to 100 requests.


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Hi,

Since this list is very low traffic, I've created an issue about that 
topic on our Github issue tracker. You can find it at 
https://github.com/fdv/typo/issues/158

Best regards,
Fred