[Mono-dev] Using valgrind with Mono

[Zinkevicius, Matt]

Hi Zoltan,

Thank you for investigating my findings. I will apply the fix you linked to and report back. While I understand the other leaks are small, valgrind reported over 19,000 instances of leaked memory in under 5 minutes of our app running without load.

Matt Zinkevicius

From: Zoltan Varga [mailto:vargaz at gmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2016 4:45 PM
To: Zinkevicius, Matt <matt.zinkevicius at hpe.com>
Cc: mono-devel-list at lists.ximian.com; Straw, David (Storage) <david.straw at hpe.com>
Subject: Re: [Mono-dev] Using valgrind with Mono

Hi,

  Fixed the last one in:
https://github.com/mono/mono/commit/b97ac0023256bf7d915552f5f24a7742b28c32b7

The first two are leaks, but they should be small and bounded. Will look into fixing them to decrease the noise.

          Zoltan

On Sun, Mar 27, 2016 at 6:23 PM, Zinkevicius, Matt <matt.zinkevicius at hpe.com<mailto:matt.zinkevicius at hpe.com>> wrote:

Hello,



Our backend service running on Mono 4.2.2 on Linux is experiencing an unmanaged memory leak. When running our stress tests for several hours, we see the managed heap sit around 50 MB, while private memory keeps growing until the process is killed because of OOM. I am therefore attempting to use valgrind to find the culprit, but I am getting so many leaks detected that I think many must be false positives, so I thought I would ask here for some guidance about which are safe to suppress or any other valgrind + mono tricks you can share.



The vast majority of leaks reported have call stacks that closely match one of the following:



==16846== 4 bytes in 1 blocks are definitely lost in loss record 74 of 19,903

==16846==    at 0x4C26FEF: calloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:711)

==16846==    by 0x62D1D9: monoeg_malloc0 (in /usr/bin/mono-sgen)

==16846==    by 0x4870F2: decode_exception_debug_info (in /usr/bin/mono-sgen)

==16846==    by 0x488975: mono_aot_find_jit_info (in /usr/bin/mono-sgen)

==16846==    by 0x53C3A7: mono_jit_info_table_find_internal (in /usr/bin/mono-sgen)

==16846==    by 0x493C04: mini_jit_info_table_find_ext (in /usr/bin/mono-sgen)

==16846==    by 0x4988FB: mini_add_method_trampoline (in /usr/bin/mono-sgen)

==16846==    by 0x499067: common_call_trampoline_inner (in /usr/bin/mono-sgen)

==16846==    by 0x403217C: ???

==16846==    by 0x10D3FB63: ???

==16846==    by 0x10D3F41B: ???

==16846==    by 0x10D3F117: ???



==16846== 12 bytes in 1 blocks are definitely lost in loss record 1,172 of 19,903

==16846==    at 0x4C2828A: malloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:299)

==16846==    by 0x62D221: monoeg_malloc (in /usr/bin/mono-sgen)

==16846==    by 0x55B8EF: mono_metadata_type_dup (in /usr/bin/mono-sgen)

==16846==    by 0x49FC4B: get_shared_gparam (in /usr/bin/mono-sgen)

==16846==    by 0x49FE70: get_shared_inst (in /usr/bin/mono-sgen)

==16846==    by 0x4A073A: mini_get_shared_method_full (in /usr/bin/mono-sgen)

==16846==    by 0x414723: lookup_method (in /usr/bin/mono-sgen)

==16846==    by 0x4147FA: mono_jit_compile_method_with_opt (in /usr/bin/mono-sgen)

==16846==    by 0x414B9A: mono_jit_compile_method (in /usr/bin/mono-sgen)

==16846==    by 0x498DA4: common_call_trampoline_inner (in /usr/bin/mono-sgen)

==16846==    by 0x403405C: ???

==16846==    by 0x10D2DCA7: ???



==16846== 10 bytes in 1 blocks are definitely lost in loss record 739 of 19,903

==16846==    at 0x4C2828A: malloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:299)

==16846==    by 0x62D221: monoeg_malloc (in /usr/bin/mono-sgen)

==16846==    by 0x62BA8C: monoeg_g_utf16_to_utf8 (in /usr/bin/mono-sgen)

==16846==    by 0x5A8646: mono_string_to_utf8_checked (in /usr/bin/mono-sgen)

==16846==    by 0x5A885B: mono_string_to_utf8 (in /usr/bin/mono-sgen)

==16846==    by 0x52DE3C: ves_icall_Type_GetNestedTypes (in /usr/bin/mono-sgen)

==16846==    by 0x120D4256: ???

==16846==    by 0xE338A78: System_Type_GetMember_string_System_Reflection_BindingFlags (type.cs:806)

==16846==    by 0x40C09EF: ???

==16846==    by 0x1259A6AF: ???

==16846==    by 0x73: ???

==16846==    by 0x141D191D: ???



Are these valid leaks or is valgrind confused/misconfigured? I am using the following command:

valgrind --tool=memcheck -v --leak-check=full --log-file=val.txt --smc-check=all mono program.exe



Thanks for any input you can offer,

Matt Zinkevicius




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