[bitcoin-dev] Memory leaks?

[Jonathan Toomim]

You may want to add a cron job to restart bitcoind every day or two as a damage control mechanism until we figure this out.

On Oct 22, 2015, at 9:06 AM, Multipool Admin <admin at multipool.us> wrote:

> This is a real issue.  The bitcoind process is getting killed every few days when it reaches around 55gb of usage on my server.
> 
> On Oct 21, 2015 12:29 AM, "Tom Zander via bitcoin-dev" <bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On Tuesday 20 Oct 2015 20:01:16 Jonathan Toomim wrote:
> >  claimed that he had this memory usage issue on Linux, but not on Mac OS X,
> > under a GBT workload in both situations. If this is true, that would
> > suggest this might be a fragmentation issue due to poor memory allocation.
> 
> Please make sure you measure your memory usage correctly on Linux, it is
> notoriously easy to get misleading info from tools like top.
> 
> I use this one on Linux.
> 
> $cat ~/bin/showmemusage
> #!/bin/sh
> if test -z "$1"; then
>     echo "need a pid"
>     exit
> fi
> 
> mem=`echo 0 $(cat /proc/$1/smaps | grep Pss | awk '{print $2}' | \
> sed 's#^#+#' ) | bc`
> echo "$mem KB"
> 
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