From: from-ruby-lang@...
Date: 2015-05-23T21:28:41+00:00
Subject: [ruby-core:69342] [Ruby trunk - Bug #11175] [Open] possible fibers memory leak or risky GC behavior

Issue #11175 has been reported by Cyril Vechera.

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Bug #11175: possible fibers memory leak or risky GC behavior
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/11175

* Author: Cyril Vechera
* Status: Open
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: 
* ruby -v: 
* Backport: 2.0.0: UNKNOWN, 2.1: UNKNOWN, 2.2: UNKNOWN
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There's strong memory growth on mass Fiber creation/deletion.

Script to demonstrate the problem (on x86_64-linux):

~~~
loop {
	10000.times.map { Fiber.new { } } 
	GC.start # not necessary, just to be sure
	puts File.open('/proc/self/status').grep(/VmRSS:/).first
}
~~~

Running this script shows RSS growing from 57 Mb to 1Gb within one minute. Than RSS remains in range from 850 Mb to 1200 Mb.


~~~
cv@new-cv:~/arena$ ruby fiber_memleak.rb
VmRSS:     57168 kB
VmRSS:    121668 kB
VmRSS:    183568 kB
...
VmRSS:   1114664 kB
VmRSS:   1122624 kB
~~~

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fiber_memleak.rb (146 Bytes)


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