There are is some memory leak in exec.

IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2012-08-11

<braunr> the exec servers seems to leak a lot
<braunr> server*
<braunr> exec now uses 109M on darnassus
<braunr> it really leaks a lot
<pinotree> only 109mb? few months ago, exec on exodar was taking more than
  200mb after few days of uptime with builds done
<braunr> i wonder how much it takes on the buildds

IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2012-08-17

<braunr> the exec leak is tricky
<braunr> bddebian: btw, look at the TODO file in the hurd source code
<braunr> bddebian: there is a not from thomas bushnell about that
<braunr> "*** Handle dead name notifications on execserver ports. !
<braunr> not sure it's still a todo item, but it might be worth checking
<bddebian> braunr: diskfs_execboot_class = ports_create_class (0, 0);
  This is what would need to change right?  It should call some cleanup
  routine in the first argument?
<bddebian> Would be ideal if it could just use deadboot() from exec.
<braunr> bddebian: possible
<braunr> bddebian: hum execboot, i'm not so sure
<bddebian> Execboot is the exec task, no?
<braunr> i don't know what execboot is
<bddebian> It's from libdiskfs
<braunr> but "diskfs_execboot_class" looks like a class of ports used at
  startup only
<braunr> ah
<braunr> then it's something run in the diskfs users ?
<bddebian> yes
<braunr> the leak is in exec
<braunr> if clients misbehave, it shouldn't affect that server
<bddebian> That's a different issue, this was about the TODO thing 
<braunr> ah
<braunr> i don't know
<bddebian> Me either :)
<bddebian> For the leak I'm still focusing on do-bunzip2 but I am baffled
  at my results..
<braunr> ?
<bddebian> Where my counters are zero if I always increment on different
  vars but wild freaking numbers if I increment on malloc and decrement on
  free

2012-11-25

After twelve hours worth of fork/exec (GCC's check-c part of the testsuite), we got:

  PID  UID  PPID  PGrp  Sess TH  Vmem   RSS %CPU     User   System Args
    4    0     3     1     1 10  392M  262M  0.0  2:18.29     2hrs /hurd/exec

The RSS seems a tad high. Also the system part of CPU time consumption is quite noticeable. In comparison:

    0    0     1     1     1 19  131M 1.14M  0.0  3:30.25  9:17.79 /hurd/proc
    3    0     1     1     1 224 405M 12.6M  0.2 42:20.25    67min ext2fs --readonly --multiboot-command-line=root=device:hd0s6 --host-priv-port=1 --device-master-port=2 --exec-server-task=3 -T typed device:hd0s6
  276    0     3     1     1 344 442M 28.2M  0.6 48:09.36    91min /hurd/ext2fs /dev/hd2s5

2012-12-20

After running the libtool testsuite for some time:

  PID TH#  UID  PPID  PGrp  Sess TH  Vmem   RSS %CPU     User   System Args
    4        0     3     1     1 11  334M  203M 60.8  3:19.73     4hrs /hurd/exec
        0                                        0.0  0:20.33 27:02.47 
        1                                        0.0  0:31.10 32:21.13 
        2                                        0.0  0:25.68 27:42.33 
        3                                        0.0  0:00.00  0:00.00 
        4                                        5.1  0:34.93 34:07.59 
        5                                        0.0  0:19.56 28:44.15 
        6                                        3.4  0:18.73 28:17.89 
        7                                        0.0  0:20.47 34:42.51 
        8                                       39.5  0:15.60 28:48.57 
        9                                        0.0  0:04.49 10:24.12 
       10                                       12.8  0:08.84 19:34.45 

IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2013-10-08

* braunr hunting the exec leak
<braunr> and i think i found it
<braunr> yes :>
<braunr> testing a bit more and committing the fix later tonight
<braunr> pinotree: i've been building glibc for 40 mins and exec is still
  consuming around 1m memory
<pinotree> wow nice
<pinotree> i've been noticing exec leaking quite some time ago, then forgot
  to pay more attention to that
<braunr> it's been more annoying since darnassus provides web access to
  cgis
<braunr> automated tools make requests every seconds
<braunr> the leak occurred when starting a shell script or using system()
<braunr> youpi: not sure you saw it, i fixed the exec leak

IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2013-10-10

<gg0> braunr: http://postimg.org/image/jd764wfpp/
<braunr> exec 797M
<braunr> this should be fixed with the release of the next hurd packages