[Gluster-devel] how do you debug ref leaks?

[Pranith Kumar Karampuri]

On 09/18/2014 09:59 AM, Raghavendra Gowdappa wrote:
> One thing that would be helpful is "allocator" info for generic objects like dict, inode, fd etc. That way we wouldn't have to sift through large amount of code.
Could you elaborate the idea please.

Pranith
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Pranith Kumar Karampuri" <pkarampu at redhat.com>
>> To: "Gluster Devel" <gluster-devel at gluster.org>
>> Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2014 7:43:00 AM
>> Subject: [Gluster-devel] how do you debug ref leaks?
>>
>> hi,
>>       Till now the only method I used to find ref leaks effectively is to
>> find what operation is causing ref leaks and read the code to find if
>> there is a ref-leak somewhere. Valgrind doesn't solve this problem
>> because it is reachable memory from inode-table etc. I am just wondering
>> if there is an effective way anyone else knows of. Do you guys think we
>> need a better mechanism of finding refleaks? At least which decreases
>> the search space significantly i.e. xlator y, fop f etc? It would be
>> better if we can come up with ways to integrate statedump and this infra
>> just like we did for mem-accounting.
>>
>> One way I thought was to introduce new apis called
>> xl_fop_dict/inode/fd_ref/unref (). Each xl keeps an array of num_fops
>> per inode/dict/fd and increments/decrements accordingly. Dump this info
>> on statedump.
>>
>> I myself am not completely sure about this idea. It requires all xlators
>> to change.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Pranith
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