Hi, all!
I’m having memory leak problem with my program, but can’t find where’s
the leak.
I have a program written in pure-Ruby. It implemented a Chinese word
segment
algorithm. I call segment(text)' to get the result. But each time I call segment’,
the memory usage of my program (Ruby) increased several handred K-
bytes – the
number of bytes of increment is roughly equal during each call.
I can see from outside (using ps' or top’) that the memory is
leaking. But I can’t
find where the leaking goes. I tried to use ObjectSpace.each_object to
find out
what leaks. I followed this article
and compare the objects after each call to `segment’. What surprise me
is that
there’s no object leaked between each call. The number of objects
after each
call is roughly equal.
I also tried bleak_house:
I don’t precisely how to use it. I just dump a snapshot after each
call to segment' and use bleak’ to analyze the result. However, it also shows no leak.
But if
there’s no leak, where goes the memory?
Here’s the result of using the `pmap’ tool to inspect the running Ruby
process:
933: /usr/bin/ruby1.8 /usr/bin/rake PROFILE=false test:many
08048000 4K r-x-- /usr/bin/ruby1.8
08049000 4K rw— /usr/bin/ruby1.8
0804a000 33412K rw— [ anon ]
b74a8000 7016K rw— [ anon ]
b7b82000 16K r-x-- /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/i486-linux/strscan.so
b7b86000 4K rw— /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/i486-linux/strscan.so
b7b87000 16K r-x-- /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/ruby-prof-0.6.0/lib/
ruby_prof.so
b7b8b000 4K rw— /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/ruby-prof-0.6.0/lib/
ruby_prof.so
b7b8c000 1192K rw— [ anon ]
b7cb6000 1308K r-x-- /lib/i686/cmov/libc-2.7.so
b7dfd000 4K r---- /lib/i686/cmov/libc-2.7.so
b7dfe000 8K rw— /lib/i686/cmov/libc-2.7.so
b7e00000 12K rw— [ anon ]
b7e03000 140K r-x-- /lib/i686/cmov/libm-2.7.so
b7e26000 8K rw— /lib/i686/cmov/libm-2.7.so
b7e28000 36K r-x-- /lib/i686/cmov/libcrypt-2.7.so
b7e31000 8K rw— /lib/i686/cmov/libcrypt-2.7.so
b7e33000 156K rw— [ anon ]
b7e5a000 8K r-x-- /lib/i686/cmov/libdl-2.7.so
b7e5c000 8K rw— /lib/i686/cmov/libdl-2.7.so
b7e5e000 4K rw— [ anon ]
b7e5f000 80K r-x-- /lib/i686/cmov/libpthread-2.7.so
b7e73000 8K rw— /lib/i686/cmov/libpthread-2.7.so
b7e75000 8K rw— [ anon ]
b7e77000 756K r-x-- /usr/lib/libruby1.8.so.1.8.6
b7f34000 8K rw— /usr/lib/libruby1.8.so.1.8.6
b7f36000 64K rw— [ anon ]
b7f48000 8K rw— [ anon ]
b7f4a000 8K r-x-- /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/i486-linux/etc.so
b7f4c000 4K rw— /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/i486-linux/etc.so
b7f4d000 12K r-x-- /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/i486-linux/thread.so
b7f50000 4K rw— /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/i486-linux/thread.so
b7f51000 8K rw— [ anon ]
b7f53000 104K r-x-- /lib/ld-2.7.so
b7f6d000 8K rw— /lib/ld-2.7.so
bfdea000 116K rw— [ stack ]
ffffe000 4K r-x-- [ anon ]
total 44568K
The section “0804a000 33412K rw— [ anon ]” increased after each
call. I’ve no idea now. Do you have any suggestion for me?