[rt-users] memory leaks

[Jesse Vincent]

On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 04:24:56PM -0400, Mathieu Longtin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> we have RT 3.8.1 installed with mod_perl 2.0.4 on a Red Hat ES5 system, and
> using Oracle as a database.
> 
> I have noticed a lot of memory leaks on the part of the apache processes. It
> seems they grow by 2 to 5K for every page request against RT, and about 10K
> for every email loaded by rt-mailgate.
> 
> I had to reduce the number of request served by apache before restarting a
> process, just to keep the memory usage under control.
> 
> Is there anything I can do to fix this?

I'd recommend instrumenting webmux.pl with Devel::Gladiator to figure
out what objects are leaking. That's the right first step to properly
fixing things.

Best,
Jesse