I started testing out that script that you mentioned awhile back about UBB in the comment field. That's when I started noticing the memory depletion. http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/AutomatedBilling and the one by Andrew Cox.
---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: Josh Luthman <j...@imaginenetworksllc.com> Reply-To: Mikrotik discussions <mikrotik@mail.butchevans.com> Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2011 16:38:44 -0400 >With a supout MT can and will tell you what ps is eating the CPU and RAM. >On Apr 24, 2011 4:36 PM, "Stuart Pierce" <spie...@avolve.net> wrote: >> Well I had had a couple of scripts running all the time, up until a couple >of weeks ago. Then I added the one to keep track of usage in the comment of >the queue. I added another script to do something else for that one and >tweaked the original. >> >> That's when I noticed my email backup script wasn't emailing. Then I >noticed that the memory was running down from what 128 at start to ( as of >this moment after a day and 6hours ) 66 megs. >> >> I'm just testing out these scripts so I am going to have to stop one and >see if it slows or stops the leak. But I have no idea of what in them is >causing the leak. The one I recently added reads a file into an array, not a >big file by any means. Although as you say and I would think, after the >script finished, the memory space used should be returned. >> >> >> ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- >> From: Bill Prince <part...@skylinebroadbandservice.com> >> Reply-To: Mikrotik discussions <mikrotik@mail.butchevans.com> >> Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2011 11:51:30 -0700 >> >>>That would not be standard linux, but then I guess MT is not really >>>"standard". >>> >>>That said, I would be more inclined to suspect a leak in a process that >>>is running all the time. >>> >>>I have no idea how MT launches scripts. I would suspect there is some >>>sort of cron daemon or something. >>> >>>Do you know for certain that it is the scripts that are the source of >>>the leak? >>> >>>bp >>> >>> >>>On 4/24/2011 11:39 AM, Stuart Pierce wrote: >>>> Well one would think. Maybe it's Global variables somehow that are >somehow re-initialized or created new with the same name and the original >one's memory is not released. I'm using 4.11 on a 433AH and am not ready to >try out 4.17 or 5.0 on this tower. >>>> >>>> ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- >>>> From: Bill Prince<part...@skylinebroadbandservice.com> >>>> Reply-To: Mikrotik discussions<mikrotik@mail.butchevans.com> >>>> Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2011 08:13:30 -0700 >>>> >>>>> If the script is re-execed whenever it's run, any leaks should go away >>>>> with the script shell when it terminates. >>>>> >>>>> bp >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On 4/23/2011 10:42 PM, Stuart Pierce wrote: >>>>>> I'm wondering if not releasing local variables at script end, that it >doesn't release the memory used for some reason. >>>>>> >>>>>> ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- >>>>>> From: Jacob Heider<jhhei...@gmail.com> >>>>>> Reply-To: Mikrotik discussions<mikrotik@mail.butchevans.com> >>>>>> Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2011 22:39:40 -0400 >>>>>> >>>>>>> Seconded. I've run a few routers out of memory, slowly, over weeks or >>>>>>> months. What am I failing to properly account for? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On 2011-04-23 10:37 PM, Stuart Pierce wrote: >>>>>>>> What are some of the biggest reasons for scripts to leak memory ? >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> ________________________________________________________________ >>>>>>>> Sent via the WebMail system at avolve.net >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>>>> Mikrotik mailing list >>>>>>>> Mikrotik@mail.butchevans.com >>>>>>>> http://www.butchevans.com/mailman/listinfo/mikrotik >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Visit http://blog.butchevans.com/ for tutorials related to Mikrotik >RouterOS >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>>> Mikrotik mailing list >>>>>>> Mikrotik@mail.butchevans.com >>>>>>> http://www.butchevans.com/mailman/listinfo/mikrotik >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Visit http://blog.butchevans.com/ for tutorials related to Mikrotik >RouterOS >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> ________________________________________________________________ >>>>>> Sent via the WebMail system at avolve.net >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> Mikrotik mailing list >>>>>> Mikrotik@mail.butchevans.com >>>>>> http://www.butchevans.com/mailman/listinfo/mikrotik >>>>>> >>>>>> Visit http://blog.butchevans.com/ for tutorials related to Mikrotik >RouterOS >>>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Mikrotik mailing list >>>>> Mikrotik@mail.butchevans.com >>>>> http://www.butchevans.com/mailman/listinfo/mikrotik >>>>> >>>>> Visit http://blog.butchevans.com/ for tutorials related to Mikrotik >RouterOS >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> ________________________________________________________________ >>>> Sent via the WebMail system at avolve.net >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Mikrotik mailing list >>>> Mikrotik@mail.butchevans.com >>>> http://www.butchevans.com/mailman/listinfo/mikrotik >>>> >>>> Visit http://blog.butchevans.com/ for tutorials related to Mikrotik >RouterOS >>>> >>>_______________________________________________ >>>Mikrotik mailing list >>>Mikrotik@mail.butchevans.com >>>http://www.butchevans.com/mailman/listinfo/mikrotik >>> >>>Visit http://blog.butchevans.com/ for tutorials related to Mikrotik >RouterOS >>> >> >> >> >> >> >> ________________________________________________________________ >> Sent via the WebMail system at avolve.net >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mikrotik mailing list >> Mikrotik@mail.butchevans.com >> http://www.butchevans.com/mailman/listinfo/mikrotik >> >> Visit http://blog.butchevans.com/ for tutorials related to Mikrotik >RouterOS >-------------- next part -------------- >An HTML attachment was scrubbed... >URL: ><http://www.butchevans.com/pipermail/mikrotik/attachments/20110424/25b6045b/attachment.html> >_______________________________________________ >Mikrotik mailing list >Mikrotik@mail.butchevans.com >http://www.butchevans.com/mailman/listinfo/mikrotik > >Visit http://blog.butchevans.com/ for tutorials related to Mikrotik RouterOS > ________________________________________________________________ Sent via the WebMail system at avolve.net _______________________________________________ Mikrotik mailing list Mikrotik@mail.butchevans.com http://www.butchevans.com/mailman/listinfo/mikrotik Visit http://blog.butchevans.com/ for tutorials related to Mikrotik RouterOS
