Re: possible memory leak with syslog feature in log4cxx-0.9.8.tar.gz?

On Mar 31, 2006, at 1:19 PM, Min Tjong wrote:

> Hello,
>
>
>
> First of all, I apologize for this rather lengthy email.  I am new  
> to log4cxx and have recently encountered a memory leak issue with  
> log4cxx-0.9.8.tar.gz.  I downloaded it fromhttp:// 
> littletux.homelinux.org/log4cxx and started playing with the syslog  
> feature
>
> by modifying the console example code provided in the package.    
> Basically the configure function is modified to use SyslogAppender  
> and PatternLayout and the main function is modified to include a  
> while loop with a sleep statement between logging occurrences.  The  
> entire modified code is presented below.
>
>
>
> Running the program on Windows XP, I am experiencing a memory leak  
> of approximately 120 bytes on each logging occurrence.
>
> I wonder if anybody has experienced something similar to this?   
> After some investigation, I found out that the leak was caused by  
> the call to apr_sockaddr_info_get in the DatagramSocket::send 
> (DatagramPacketPtr& p) method (datagramsocket.cpp).  At this point  
> I wonder if I am missing something.  Any comment/help would be much  
> appreciated.

RE: Re: Expected release of 0.9.8 (mee too)

I'd like to know as well.

We're currently using 0.9.7 in our apps, because we'd rather use a
stable release than a snapshot of a moving target that  might turn out
to have problems.

But we're quite anxious to switch ovr to 0.9.8 as soon as its ready.

Thanks,

Moshe

-----Original Message-----
From: news [mailto:news <at> sea.gmane.org] On Behalf Of anton
Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 9:06 AM
To: log4cxx-user <at> logging.apache.org
Subject: Re: Expected release of 0.9.8 (mee too)

Richards Jon <JRICHARDS <at> qinetiq.com> writes:

> 
> May I enquire as to whether there is a planned release date for 
> version 0.9.8?
> 

Yes this is a thing I would like to know too.

Is there somewhere like an actual status/roadmap/todo list?

Sorry for asking .. but 0.9.8 is on the way since .. don't remember .. a

Re: Expected release of 0.9.8 (mee too)

Re: Expected release of 0.9.8 (mee too)

On Mar 31, 2006, at 1:05 AM, anton wrote:

> Richards Jon <JRICHARDS <at> qinetiq.com> writes:
>
>>
>> May I enquire as to whether there is a planned release date
>> for version 0.9.8?
>>
>

Actually, I suspect it will be 0.10.0.  Only differing in the minor  
version implies binary compatibility which there is no intent to  
achieve.

There has been a task list (see below) and most of the big issues  
have been knocked out.

> Yes this is a thing I would like to know too.
>
> Is there somewhere like an actual status/roadmap/todo list?
>

http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOGCXX-62.  Haven't reviewed it  
for a little while, there may have been some newly created bugs that  
should be added as stoppers and maybe some bugs that should be closed  
out.

> Sorry for asking .. but 0.9.8 is on the way
> since .. don't remember .. a year??

At least.

>
> People looking around might get the impression
> its not ready for use and there will never
> be an "official" release.

I understand.  There was a long period that log4cxx was in the  
incubator and could not do an official release.  We've long since  
moved out and need to put 0.9.7 out of its misery.

RE: possible memory leak with syslog feature in log4cxx-0.9.8.tar.gz?

Curt,

Thanks for the response. Your explanation makes sense. I probably need
to play around with it some more to get better understanding of the
memory pool.

Thanks again,
Min

-----Original Message-----
From: Curt Arnold [mailto:carnold <at> apache.org] 
Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 9:20 PM
To: Log4CXX User
Subject: Re: possible memory leak with syslog feature in
log4cxx-0.9.8.tar.gz?

On Mar 31, 2006, at 1:19 PM, Min Tjong wrote:

> Hello,
>
>
>
> First of all, I apologize for this rather lengthy email.  I am new  
> to log4cxx and have recently encountered a memory leak issue with  
> log4cxx-0.9.8.tar.gz.  I downloaded it fromhttp:// 
> littletux.homelinux.org/log4cxx and started playing with the syslog  
> feature
>
> by modifying the console example code provided in the package.    
> Basically the configure function is modified to use SyslogAppender  
> and PatternLayout and the main function is modified to include a  
> while loop with a sleep statement between logging occurrences.  The  
> entire modified code is presented below.
>
>
>
> Running the program on Windows XP, I am experiencing a memory leak  
> of approximately 120 bytes on each logging occurrence.
>
> I wonder if anybody has experienced something similar to this?   
> After some investigation, I found out that the leak was caused by  
> the call to apr_sockaddr_info_get in the DatagramSocket::send 
> (DatagramPacketPtr& p) method (datagramsocket.cpp).  At this point  
> I wonder if I am missing something.  Any comment/help would be much  
> appreciated.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Min

The implementation of DatagramSocket::send does not correspond to the  
source in the Apache SVN (http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/logging/ 
log4cxx/trunk/src/datagramsocket.cpp?rev=308840&view=markup).  I  
assume the author intended to commit the code, but somehow it fell  
through the cracks and it only appears in the littletux tarball.

 From the fragment, it appears that DatagramSocket has a member  
variable named memoryPool of type log4cxx::helpers::Pool.  Memory  
allocated from that pool is not reclaimed until the pool is destroyed  
which explains the observed memory leakage.  I would recommend that  
the member variable be removed and a Pool& be passed as a parameter  
to the send function (and another other function that needs a memory  
pool).

Re: Expected release of 0.9.8 (mee too)

First thanks for the info 

One other thing.. the following link seems to be broken: 

> http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOGCXX-62.  Haven't reviewed it  

also your old issue tracker seems to have gone, did
I miss something (i didnt look in this list for some time)?

The following domain does no more exist:
http://nagoya.apache.org/jira/browse

RE: segmentation faults

> >
> > How should I proceed? Separate bug reports for each problem that I
> > have
> > found? Where is the proper place to submit bug reports?
> >
> 
> https://issues.apache.org:443/jira/browse/LOGCXX
> 

So far, I have identified 7 distinct stack traces on segmentation
faults. Would you prefer that I open 1 bug report or 7 different ones?

> 
> Okay, wanted to know if this was something that we might see on Intel
> linux or if it was just happening on a more obscure platform.  Does
> the problem show up with other versions of gcc like a gcc 3.3 or gcc
> 4.0?
> 

I don't have access to install additional compilers on the development
machine, so I am not sure if these things are also happening on other
versions of gcc. When I open my bug report(s) I will attach a tar file
with my application.

> 
> After that message, all use of non-local static members was
> eliminated EXCEPT Level::DEBUG, Level::INFO et all which were
> publicly exposed and left for compatibility with existing programs
> and ease of porting log4j client code.  log4cxx does not use them,
> but instead uses Level::getDebug(), Level::getInfo() et al.  There
> was a recent report of segmentation faults related to the destruction
> of the Level::DEBUG and similar static members which were eliminated
> when they were removed.  Could you try your tests again and hack
> level.h and level.cpp to remove those members.

I will give this a shot, too.
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Re: segmentation faults

One bug report would be preferred.  If they are distinct issues, they  
can be split out later.

problem building logcxx with cygwin

Hi everyone,

have a problem building log4cxx under cygwin.
used the latest sources in svn.
used the ant task for build.
got the library build
but when build the examples or my application i get link errors.
e.g.
../../log4cxx-CYGWIN/lib/liblog4cxx.a(class.o): In function
`_ZN7log4cxx7helpers5Class15registerClas
sesEv':
/home/mprinzhorn/src/trunk/log4cxx-trunk/src/class.cpp:134: undefined
reference to `log4cxx::AsyncAp
pender::registerClass()'

reason is APR_HAS_THREADS set to 0 which is the default under cygwin

any idee who to solve the problem?

Tahnks!
regards

Claudius Grieser

log4cxx 0.9.8 build failed on windows