On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 5:46 AM, Ben Bangert
I've run the new server code, indeed it initially takes less memory. However, when I ctrl-C the testing client, it fails to properly close sockets now, they stay open forever (the original code I posted always closed the sockets when I killed the testing client). Did you try ctrl-c the test client and re-running it several times?
Yes once I exhibited the leaking behaviour I stopped (and didn't implement cleanup properly). It should be ok now. I'm guessing that the recv call is blocking forever and failing somehow to
note that the socket was actually closed under it, while the hGetline I was using properly detects this condition and closes the socket when it notices the other side has left.
The Handle stuff will still end up calling recv() under the hood. I should note that when asking for even 1000 echo clients, the test client
as you've changed it dies when I try to launch it (it shows Clients Connected: 0, then just exits silently).
Are you running out of FDs?
I had to use my old testing client to test the server changes you made. If the sockets would properly close when terminating the client abruptly, then its quite possible memory usage would remain lower as it definitely took much much less memory for the first 2k echo clients.
I've also updated my copy of the the test code to work with the GHC 7.4.1
that's installed on my Ubuntu box at work (64-bit) --- and I *don't* see
the client leak there, resident heap plateaus at around 90MB.
G
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Gregory Collins