Re: [Condor-users] memory leak in Condor 7.4.2 schedd ???

[Matthew Farrellee <matt@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Dan Bradley wrote:
> Matthew Farrellee wrote:
> > FYI, Condor uses string interning to minimize the memory footprint of 
> > jobs (all classads actually), but, iirc, does not always garbage 
> > collect the string pool. If you have a lot of jobs passing through 
> > your Schedd, say with large unique Environments, you could certainly 
> > see memory usage increase.
>
> Actually, the ClassAd string pool is garbage collected via reference 
> counting.  I'm not aware of any case where this string pool gets bloated 
> from jobs that are no longer in the job queue.
>
> --Dan

This was supposed to be the case. I see a number of related commits from 
a year ago (by me!). Recollection is reference counting wasn't happening 
properly. Maybe I didn't fully fix it.

Best,


matt