Re: proc leaking

[Samuel Thibault]

Sergey Bugaev, le mer. 01 nov. 2023 23:18:01 +0300, a ecrit:
> On Wed, Nov 1, 2023 at 9:17 PM Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@gnu.org> 
> wrote:
> > I tracked it a bit, it seems that libport is not always cleaning
> > structures from the proc class. Below is the tracing that we get for
> > instance with the while loop above. Alloc is the allocation of pi, free
> > is the freeing from the point of view of the proc server, and clean is
> > the actual cleanup done by libports.
> >
> > Could it be that proc is overflown with dead port notifications? That's
> > not many procs, but still. Maybe Sergey has an idea?
> 
> I don't think I understood what "freeing from the point of view of the
> proc server" and "actual cleanup done by libports" mean (for one
> thing, proc_class's clean_routine is NULL).

>From the point of view of the proc server = complete_exit was called
Actual cleanup = clean_routing called (I added one just to track it).

The difference between the two is probably some remaining port
reference for whatever reason.

> Perhaps you could post this as a patch to clear things up, and also
> for me to try and reproduce (& debug) this?

Here it is.

Samuel

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