RE: seeing memory leak in cimprovagt process

Most probably the library was unloaded. so valgrind misses the symbol 
table. 
writing a client application testing the functionality of the provider and 
running the valgrind on the application might help. 
 
Warm Regards
D>L> Meetei
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From:   <[email protected]>
To:     <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, 
<[email protected]>, 
Cc:     <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, 
<[email protected]>
Date:   09/12/2012 01:30 PM
Subject:        RE: seeing memory leak in cimprovagt process



Hi,
 
We have not checked with any other version of OP. We are using OP 2.11.1 
version. We have run our provider in a single application and no leak was 
detected that time.We will check by running test provider.
 
We have make debug build of our library and other dependent library in our 
code base and Pegasus also.  But then also ?? symbols are coming, not 
getting details of it.
 
Thanks & Regards,
Pialy
 
 
From: Deshpande, Rohini (IESL) [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2012 11:41 AM
To: Pialy Ghosh (WT01 - Manufacturing & Hi Tech); [email protected]; 
[email protected]
Cc: Anirban Bhattacharyya (WT01 - Manufacturing & Hi Tech); Sandip Mandal 
(WT01 - Manufacturing & Hi Tech); [email protected]
Subject: RE: seeing memory leak in cimprovagt process
 
The log has many “???” where the details are not available. We should get 
symbols for these to get more details. Check the details in the report 
that I sent to you.
 
By the log, after Pegasus::BasicProviderManagerRouter::processMessage, the 
flow is through defaultProviderManger and then to provider. 
 
Since we did not get similar leaks I’m not sure if this is a cimserver 
problem. 
 
Have you encountered a similar problem in previous version of OP? Can you 
try using OP and invoking one of the test providers to see if same issue 
occurs? If not, it might be problem with your provider.
Have you checked your provider to see if all the memory being allocated is 
freed? Maybe adding some log and trace messages in provider might help.
 
The test is not yet complete on our system. It has never taken so long, 
but I’m not disturbing it right now in the hope that it’ll complete soon.
 
Regards,
Rohini
 
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2012 4:27 PM
To: Deshpande, Rohini (IESL); [email protected]; 
[email protected]
Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]; 
[email protected]
Subject: RE: seeing memory leak in cimprovagt process
 
Hi Rohini,
 
Thanks. Attaching the same mail thread where I have attached the Valgrind 
report previously.
 
Regards,
Pialy
 
From: Deshpande, Rohini (IESL) [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2012 4:14 PM
To: Pialy Ghosh (WT01 - Manufacturing & Hi Tech); [email protected]
Cc: Anirban Bhattacharyya (WT01 - Manufacturing & Hi Tech); Sandip Mandal 
(WT01 - Manufacturing & Hi Tech); [email protected]
Subject: RE: seeing memory leak in cimprovagt process
 
Hi Pialy,
 
The tests have not yet completed even after 4 days. I tried getting the 
report for the memory leaks till now. These are the two leaks detected. 
Hope this helps.
 
TestParser is reported twice and the cimprovagt multiple times.
 
I think these will be the final leaks too since the tests are running for 
so long. I’ll wait for the tests to complete and report again.
 
Can you also send us the memory leaks that you are getting to pegasus-l 
mailing list?
 
Regards,
Rohini
 
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2012 12:49 PM
To: [email protected]; Deshpande, Rohini (IESL)
Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]; 
[email protected]
Subject: RE: seeing memory leak in cimprovagt process
Importance: High
 
Hi,
 
Any update on this. As depending upon your report we have to take a 
decision in this issue asap and it’s a critical one for us now.
Looking forward for your support on this. Thanks in advance.
 
Regards,
Pialy
 
From: Devchandra L Meetei [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Friday, September 07, 2012 3:57 PM
To: Deshpande, Rohini (IESL)
Cc: Pialy Ghosh (WT01 - Manufacturing & Hi Tech); Anirban Bhattacharyya 
(WT01 - Manufacturing & Hi Tech)
Subject: Re: seeing memory leak in cimprovagt process
 
I am really sorry to say that I will not be unable to test Valgrind test 
for 2.11 due to ongoing CTC test for 2.12. 

We are going to do CTC test for 12 different combinations for System P , 
System X and Zseries, So I wont be having enough time this week. 

But for me valgrind test went though within 2 hours and 45 mint. 

--Regards
Devchandra 
On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 12:16 PM, Deshpande, Rohini (IESL) <
[email protected]> wrote:
Checked the system, the valgrind tests were running without SQL. But even 
till today the tests were still at TestServer profile tests. I’ve stopped 
it and will retstart to see if it finishes this time.
 
Dev,
 
Can you try running valgrind tests on 2.11?
 
Regards,
Rohini
 
From: Deshpande, Rohini (IESL) 
Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2012 10:58 AM
To: Devchandra L Meetei; [email protected]

Cc: [email protected]
Subject: RE: seeing memory leak in cimprovagt process
 
Oh, ok. I’ll leave it till today to see if it completes. If not, I’ll 
disable SQL and start again.
 
Regards,
Rohini
 
From: Devchandra L Meetei [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2012 10:55 AM
To: [email protected]
Cc: Deshpande, Rohini (IESL); [email protected]

Subject: Re: seeing memory leak in cimprovagt process
 
Rohini 
running valgrind with SQLLite repository will take horribly long time. 
Disabling SQLLite might help in reducing valgrind test. 
On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 10:49 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Rohini,
 
This issue is high priority one for us. So, now your valgrind report will 
be very helpful input for us. Please can you provide this as earliest as 
possible.
Thanks in advance.
 
Regards,
Pialy 
 
From: Deshpande, Rohini (IESL) [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2012 9:14 AM
To: Pialy Ghosh (WT01 - Manufacturing & Hi Tech); [email protected]

Cc: Anirban Bhattacharyya (WT01 - Manufacturing & Hi Tech)
Subject: RE: seeing memory leak in cimprovagt process
 
Hi Pialy,
 
We tried running valgrind tests on 2.11 but the 2.12 tests started before 
2.11 could complete. Since we are close to 2.12 release we concentrated on 
that.
 
I’ll start the 2.11 tests again. Apologies for the delay.
 
Regards,
Rohini
 
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Monday, September 03, 2012 4:04 PM
To: Deshpande, Rohini (IESL); [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: RE: seeing memory leak in cimprovagt process
 
Hi Rohini,
 
Any update on this?  Please can you share the result of it.
 
Thanks & Regards,
Pialy
 
From: Deshpande, Rohini (IESL) [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2012 3:41 PM
To: Pialy Ghosh (WT01 - Manufacturing & Hi Tech); [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]; Anirban Bhattacharyya (WT01 - Manufacturing 
& Hi Tech)
Subject: RE: seeing memory leak in cimprovagt process
 
Hi Pialy,
 
This is done on the current branch (2.12).
 
Valgrind has run on 2.11 before 2.12 branch was created. We haven’t done 
it on 2.11.1.
 
We can run valgrind on 2.11.1 and check if any leaks are detected with the 
build time options that you have mentioned. This will take some time and 
we’ll let you know the results after this is complete. 
 
Regards,
Rohini
 
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2012 3:12 PM
To: Deshpande, Rohini (IESL); [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]
Subject: RE: seeing memory leak in cimprovagt process
 
Hi Rohini,
 
We are using OP 2.11.1, I am checking it on Rhel5 32 bit Linux Platform.
My build variables are:
 
PEGASUS_ENABLE_CMPI_PROVIDER_MANAGER=true
PEGASUS_ENABLE_IPV6=true
PEGASUS_ENABLE_SLP=true
PEGASUS_SNIA_EXTENSIONS=true
PEGASUS_PLATFORM=LINUX_IX86_GNU
PEGASUS_HAS_SSL=true
PEGASUS_PAM_AUTHENTICATION=1
 
In which OP version this report is generated, please can you inform me.
 
 
 
 
Hi Devchandra,
 
No significant increase in our application is measured from the heap  and 
stack memory usages by the application. Heap memory is increased by 80 KB 
maximum and no increment in stack memory usages, so, it’s almost constant.
 
When we are running cimserver, then we can see cimprovagt process heap 
usages is increased from 8876 KB to 22000KB in 18hours.
 
Thanks & Regards,
Pialy
 
 
 
From: Deshpande, Rohini (IESL) [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2012 2:19 PM
To: Devchandra L Meetei; Pialy Ghosh (WT01 - Manufacturing & Hi Tech)
Cc: [email protected]; Anirban Bhattacharyya (WT01 - Manufacturing 
& Hi Tech)
Subject: RE: seeing memory leak in cimprovagt process
 
On which OP version are you seeing this?
 
We run nightly builds with valgrind. Here are the results 
http://nbat.openpegasus.org/platform.php?id=372&archive=N&sort=0 .
 
I guess your build time options are different. Can you send us your 
environment build variables?
 
Regards,
Rohini
 
From: Devchandra L Meetei [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2012 12:54 PM
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]
Subject: Re: seeing memory leak in cimprovagt process
 
Thanks for all of your responses.
If we simply start and stop the server, then also we can see memory leak 
from Valgrind report. To separate out the memory leak area, we created a 
single application with our provider code. And by executing the 
application with Valgrind, it’s not reporting any memory leak. We put our 
standalone application  overnight and there is no significant increase in 
memory usage.
 
How are you measuring exactly? No Significant increase? would appreciate a 
quantification. 
 
But when we run cimserver overnight, not doing any operation on it, we can 
see increase in memory. 
So, by summarizing this, can we suspect some memory leak in the 
serverside?
How you find that the memory being leaked is from cimserver? 
If there is some serverside leak, it would have been detected by the 
valgrind test, which have been runring on daily nightly build testing. 
 
 
Please give your input on this asap.
On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 12:39 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi All,
 
Thanks for all of your responses.
If we simply start and stop the server, then also we can see memory leak 
from Valgrind report. To separate out the memory leak area, we created a 
single application with our provider code. And by executing the 
application with Valgrind, it’s not reporting any memory leak. We put our 
standalone application  overnight and there is no significant increase in 
memory usage.
 
But when we run cimserver overnight, not doing any operation on it, we can 
see increase in memory. 
So, by summarizing this, can we suspect some memory leak in the 
serverside?
 
Please give your input on this asap.
 
Thanks & Regards,
Pialy
 
 
 
From: Karl Schopmeyer [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2012 1:54 AM
To: Pialy Ghosh (WT01 - Manufacturing & Hi Tech); 
[email protected]
Cc: Anirban Bhattacharyya (WT01 - Manufacturing & Hi Tech)
Subject: RE: seeing memory leak in cimprovagt process
 
Note that there are still some memory issues in Pegasus shutdown so that 
this may be some of what you are seeing.  To separate these out, simply 
start and stop the server. with valgrind running. That will give you a 
clue what things valgrind reports with without your provider being called.

Second, you might be better to test the provider in out-of-process mode 
where you are running valgrind only on the particular provider and OOP 
agent to determine if the error is from the provider or agent vs. the 
server.
If you have issues setting this up, there is an example of a script to run 
valgrind on just cimprovagt by replacing cimprovagt executable with a 
script like the following


#!/bin/sh
## Original Author: Tim Potter
# move cimprovagt to cimprovagt.real
# move this file to cimprovagt
#
# mv /usr/sbin/cimprovagt /usr/sbin/cimprovagt.real
# cp cimprovagt.wrapper /usr/sbin/cimprovagt
## By default the script doesn't call valgrind - enable it by
## creating a semaphore file of the form /tmp/$MODULE.valgrind where 
module
## is the module name in the output of "cimprovider -l".
## Or create a file /tmp/LogAll.valgrind which valgrinds all providers.
module=$5
VALGRIND_ARGS="--leak-check=yes --trace-children=yes 
--log-file=/tmp/$module.valgrind"
if [ -e /tmp/$module.valgrind -o -e /tmp/LogAll.valgrind ]; then
        exec /usr/bin/valgrind $VALGRIND_ARGS \
      /usr/sbin/cimprovagt.real "$@"
else
        exec /usr/sbin/cimprovagt.real "$@"
fi

Karl

Thanks for your message at 06:14 AM 8/7/2012. Your message was:
Hi All,
 
Thanks for all of your response.
We have configured cimserver ?forceProviderProcesses=false?, so that all 
the provider processes will be in the same context.
Now, we run ?Valgrind? for cimserver process. And then, we have generated 
one event for our provider and stop the cimserver process after that.
 
Then from ?Valgrind? memory leak report, we can see many definitely lost 
memory issue are coming from Pegasus. Please check the attached file for 
details of it. Is this a known issue?

 
Please give your valuable input. Thanks in advance.
 
Regards,
Pialy
 
 
 
From: Devchandra Leishangthem [ mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Friday, August 03, 2012 9:52 PM
To: Pialy Ghosh (WT01 - Manufacturing & Hi Tech)
Cc: Anirban Bhattacharyya (WT01 - Product Engineering Services); 
[email protected]
Subject: Re: seeing memory leak in cimprovagt process
 
Is the leak seen in a particular cimprovagt or for all the provider 
processes? 
If It is seen in some particular agent processes, Then most probably it is 
leak in the corresponding provider. 
See if running under a memory debugger helps for that particular agt 
processes. 

Warm Regards 
D>L> Meetei 
9538270270 

IBM India Software Lab, STG 
6th Floor, A0202, 
EGL -D,Bangalore, India 



From:        <[email protected]> 
To:        <[email protected]>, 
Cc:        <[email protected]> 
Date:        08/03/2012 05:37 PM 
Subject:        seeing memory leak in cimprovagt process 
 



Hi, 
 
We are seeing some memory leak in cimprovagt process. We are running open 
Pegasus, cimserver in a windows 64 bit OS. Our provider is running on 
cimserver. 
After few days long run we can see, memory usages is increased. I have 
searched in internet and find out same kind of problem is mentioned by 
others also. So, just wanted to know, is this a known issue in Pegasus? If 
not, then we will come to know that, issue is coming from our provider. 
 
Your valuable input will be very helpful for us to analyze the issue. 
 
Thanks & Regards, 
Pialy 
 
 

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