Hi Gonzalo,
I highly recommend using https://github.com/rfjakob/earlyoom instead of
waiting for OOM to kick in.
Cheers,
Edgar
On Wed, Jul 5, 2023 at 11:24 AM Gonzalo Tornaria <torna...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This slowly and inexorably goes on. Computing `sqrt(T2)` leaks 32 bytes
> each and every time (asymptotically).
>
> Found by a student who, through no fault of himself, brought down our
> server (unable to ssh in until the OOM triggered -- but since the leak is
> slow it takes a while to trash 16G of swap).
>
> ===
> $ cat memleak.py
> from sage.all import sqrt
> T2 = sqrt(2)
> import psutil
> ps = psutil.Process()
> base = ps.memory_info().rss
> for a in range(1, 10):
> for b in range(num := 100_000):
> C = sqrt(T2)
> mem = ps.memory_info().rss - base
> print(f"{mem/1e6 :.2f} MB ({mem/a/num :.2f} bytes/iter)")
> $ sage memleak.py
> 2.70 MB (27.03 bytes/iter)
> 5.95 MB (29.74 bytes/iter)
> 9.19 MB (30.64 bytes/iter)
> 12.44 MB (31.09 bytes/iter)
> 15.41 MB (30.82 bytes/iter)
> 18.65 MB (31.09 bytes/iter)
> 21.90 MB (31.28 bytes/iter)
> 25.14 MB (31.43 bytes/iter)
> 28.39 MB (31.54 bytes/iter)
> ===
>
> Replace the 10 in the outer loop by something larger at your own peril
> (each outer iteration will take 3.2M so 10_000 should kill a laptop in an
> hour or two).
>
> This is with system sagemath 10.0 but it also happens with 9.6, 9.7, 9.8
> and 10.0 in cocalc.com.
>
> Best,
> Gonzalo
>
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