[ndnSIM] Memory leaks

Spyridon (Spyros) Mastorakis mastorakis at CS.UCLA.EDU
Wed Feb 1 09:56:39 PST 2017


Hi,

as Alex mentioned, we have been trying to reproduce the problem for quite some time.

It would be very helpful if you could share a simple example that causes the problem with us, so that we can take a look.

Thank you,

Spyridon (Spyros) Mastorakis
Personal Website: http://cs.ucla.edu/~mastorakis/ <http://cs.ucla.edu/~mastorakis/>
Internet Research Laboratory
Computer Science Department
UCLA

> On Jan 31, 2017, at 11:54 PM, Philipp Moll <philipp.moll at itec.aau.at> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I also recognized this memory leak. In some cases the memory consumption of my simulations increase linear over the time; at the end of the simulation they consume up to 60GB. This problem especially arises in scenarios where Multicast is used as FW-Strategy and many packets are sent.
> 
> I’m currently working with ndnSIM-2.1 (Commit-Hash: a9d889b).
> 
> Regards,
> Philipp Moll
> 
> On 31/01/17 19:14, Saad SA wrote:
>> No stabilization, it keeps growing up till the end of the simulation (Yes, it finishes). So if the same simulation ran on two different computers; the faster one would finish before, hence consuming less memory than the slower, the growing stops just when the simulation ends. (You have a rate of growing equal to X MB/s, so taking long time to finish would lead to consume more!)
>> 
>> Sa'd
>> 
>> On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 7:56 PM, Alex Afanasyev <aa at cs.ucla.edu <mailto:aa at cs.ucla.edu>> wrote:
>> 
>> > On Jan 31, 2017, at 8:31 AM, Saad SA <maxpromindz at gmail.com <mailto:maxpromindz at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I had an application on ndnSIM version 0.2.8, and it was working too fine. Now I'm using the latest version, I changed the old application to work over the new ndnSIM and noticed huge memory leaks that are proportional to the run-time; On some computer it took more time and consumed 10 GB of RAM !! and on another faster one, it took less, hence consumed less RAM (4 GB or less), both are still huge amounts of memory as I'm using a small topology with 18 nodes and an average frequency of 500 requests/s; and all of that was running fine on the older version of ndnSIM.
>> > Any ideas?
>> 
>> Can you clarify a bit (if you can share a simple scenario that highlights the issue, it would be even better). Was the memory consumption growing or got to a point of high utilization and stabilized (you said it is run-time, but then mentioned that simulation finished).  The reason I'm asking is that the old version of ndnSIM had optimization of "virtual payloads", which is not available in the new version.  This has impact on the amounts of memory used, but it should be just a constant factor increase, not continuous increase during runtime.
>> 
>> --
>> Alex
>> 

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