On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 2:19 PM, jeevan kk <jeeva...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have checked the heapdump after making some https calls. I have noticed
> some Buffers are not been released. This is doesn't happen when I use http.

That's not unexpected.  The tls module (the https module is built on
top of it) uses some buffers internally that don't get released right
away.

> Here is the sample program
>
> var Heapdump = require('heapdump');
> var https = require('https');
>
> var doneCount = 0;
> var maxCount =250 ;
> var calls = function() {
>     var options = {
>         hostname: 'www.google.com',
>         port: 443,
>         path: '/',
>         method: 'GET',
>         agent: false
>     };
>
>     var req = https.request(options, function(res) {
>         res.on('data', function(d) {
>             process.stdout.write(d);
>             doneCount++;
>         });
>     });
>     req.end();
>
>     req.on('error', function(e) {
>         doneCount++;
>         console.error(e);
>     });
>
> };
>
> for(var i=0;i<maxCount ; i++){
>     calls();
> }
>
> setInterval(function(){
>     if(doneCount == maxCount){
>         global.gc();
>         Heapdump.writeSnapshot();
>         process.exit(1);
>     }
>
> }, 1000);

What do the deltas (the diffs) between snapshots look like?

You don't need to call gc() by the way, heapdump does a global GC
before writing the snapshot.

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