[jitsi-dev] Prosody memory increasing rapidly when used with jitsi-meet suite

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#1

Hi,

I've been performing some basic load testing with jitsi-meet, and while
monitoring memory usage, I noticed that Prosody seems to be consuming
memory very quickly. Over 24 hours it was consuming 1GB of ram. This
morning I started fresh, and ran a few scenarios, where I set no traffic,
prosody, jicofo and jitsi-videobridge are idle, and I'm seeing prosody chew
up quite a bit of ram when using enabling PubSub for clustering.

I'm not too familiar with XMPP PubSub, but it seems there is either a bug
in how jicofo and jitsi-videobridge are using PubSub, or there is a bug in
Prosody's PubSub module.

···

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Senario 1 - cluster of 2 video bridges using PubSub, restarted all processes

Setup:
server A running jvb, jicofo, prosody, nginx
server B running jvb registered with A

Software Versions:
prosody: 0.9.1-1
jitsi-videobridge: 491-1
jicofo: 1.0-117-1

Over 40 minutes, prosody was using 7 times it's earlier usage:

Prosody Memory Usage:

Time VSZ RSS
2015-08-14 10:17:06 49528 7888
2015-08-14 10:27:06 59948 18348
2015-08-14 10:37:06 74664 32992
2015-08-14 10:47:06 85892 44344
2015-08-14 10:57:06 101596 59920

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Senario 2 - rebooting, zero traffic, pubsub disabled in jicofo and
jitsi-videobridge

Setup:
server A running jvb, jicofo, prosody, nginx

Prosody Memory Usage:

Time VSZ RSS
2015-08-14 11:22:55 49308 7676
2015-08-14 11:32:55 51552 9832
2015-08-14 11:42:55 51948 10368
2015-08-14 11:52:55 51948 10368
2015-08-14 12:02:55 51948 10368
2015-08-14 12:11:55 51948 10368
<Enabled pubsub and restarted jicofo and jitis-videobridge>
2015-08-14 12:22:56 54852 13060
2015-08-14 12:32:56 72036 30380
2015-08-14 12:42:56 77724 35924
2015-08-14 12:52:56 83828 42260
2015-08-14 13:02:56 100452 58856

---

Scenario 3 - Baseline comparision, a clean digital ocean instance I started
up just to monitor memory usage

Setup:
-completely- clean quick install of jitsi-meet, no clustering or pubsub
server running jvb, jicofo, prosody, nginx

Prosody Memory Usage:

2015-08-14 11:23:46 48060 6336
2015-08-14 11:33:46 49248 7680
2015-08-14 11:43:46 49248 7680
2015-08-14 11:53:46 50700 9000
2015-08-14 12:03:46 50700 9000
2015-08-14 12:13:46 50700 9000
2015-08-14 12:23:46 50700 9000
2015-08-14 12:33:46 50700 9000
2015-08-14 12:43:47 50700 9000
2015-08-14 12:53:47 50700 9000
2015-08-14 13:03:47 50700 9000

#2

Prosody developer here. Could you grab a section of debug log from
Prosody (how to enable it should be explained in the comments in your
config file), from a period where pubsub is enabled in jitsi? This
should hopefully give some indication of what interaction jitsi is
having with Prosody, and how frequently.

Regards,
Matthew

···

On 14 August 2015 at 18:06, Simon Ditner <spditner@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

I've been performing some basic load testing with jitsi-meet, and while
monitoring memory usage, I noticed that Prosody seems to be consuming memory
very quickly. Over 24 hours it was consuming 1GB of ram. This morning I
started fresh, and ran a few scenarios, where I set no traffic, prosody,
jicofo and jitsi-videobridge are idle, and I'm seeing prosody chew up quite
a bit of ram when using enabling PubSub for clustering.

I'm not too familiar with XMPP PubSub, but it seems there is either a bug in
how jicofo and jitsi-videobridge are using PubSub, or there is a bug in
Prosody's PubSub module.

#3

Hi Simon,

Try updating Prosody - it fixed the problem for me. I belive there was
some bug in PubSub.

Regards,
Pawel

···

On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 7:06 PM, Simon Ditner <spditner@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

I've been performing some basic load testing with jitsi-meet, and while
monitoring memory usage, I noticed that Prosody seems to be consuming memory
very quickly. Over 24 hours it was consuming 1GB of ram. This morning I
started fresh, and ran a few scenarios, where I set no traffic, prosody,
jicofo and jitsi-videobridge are idle, and I'm seeing prosody chew up quite
a bit of ram when using enabling PubSub for clustering.

I'm not too familiar with XMPP PubSub, but it seems there is either a bug in
how jicofo and jitsi-videobridge are using PubSub, or there is a bug in
Prosody's PubSub module.

---

Senario 1 - cluster of 2 video bridges using PubSub, restarted all processes

Setup:
server A running jvb, jicofo, prosody, nginx
server B running jvb registered with A

Software Versions:
prosody: 0.9.1-1
jitsi-videobridge: 491-1
jicofo: 1.0-117-1

Over 40 minutes, prosody was using 7 times it's earlier usage:

Prosody Memory Usage:

Time VSZ RSS
2015-08-14 10:17:06 49528 7888
2015-08-14 10:27:06 59948 18348
2015-08-14 10:37:06 74664 32992
2015-08-14 10:47:06 85892 44344
2015-08-14 10:57:06 101596 59920

---

Senario 2 - rebooting, zero traffic, pubsub disabled in jicofo and
jitsi-videobridge

Setup:
server A running jvb, jicofo, prosody, nginx

Prosody Memory Usage:

Time VSZ RSS
2015-08-14 11:22:55 49308 7676
2015-08-14 11:32:55 51552 9832
2015-08-14 11:42:55 51948 10368
2015-08-14 11:52:55 51948 10368
2015-08-14 12:02:55 51948 10368
2015-08-14 12:11:55 51948 10368
<Enabled pubsub and restarted jicofo and jitis-videobridge>
2015-08-14 12:22:56 54852 13060
2015-08-14 12:32:56 72036 30380
2015-08-14 12:42:56 77724 35924
2015-08-14 12:52:56 83828 42260
2015-08-14 13:02:56 100452 58856

---

Scenario 3 - Baseline comparision, a clean digital ocean instance I started
up just to monitor memory usage

Setup:
-completely- clean quick install of jitsi-meet, no clustering or pubsub
server running jvb, jicofo, prosody, nginx

Prosody Memory Usage:

2015-08-14 11:23:46 48060 6336
2015-08-14 11:33:46 49248 7680
2015-08-14 11:43:46 49248 7680
2015-08-14 11:53:46 50700 9000
2015-08-14 12:03:46 50700 9000
2015-08-14 12:13:46 50700 9000
2015-08-14 12:23:46 50700 9000
2015-08-14 12:33:46 50700 9000
2015-08-14 12:43:47 50700 9000
2015-08-14 12:53:47 50700 9000
2015-08-14 13:03:47 50700 9000

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