[tor-bugs] #5337 [Tor Directory Authority]: Memory fragmentation(?) issues on dirauths

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#5337: Memory fragmentation(?) issues on dirauths
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 Reporter:  Sebastian                |          Owner:                    
     Type:  defect                   |         Status:  new               
 Priority:  major                    |      Milestone:  Tor: 0.2.3.x-final
Component:  Tor Directory Authority  |        Version:                    
 Keywords:                           |         Parent:                    
   Points:                           |   Actualpoints:                    
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 I wonder how we can better track down the extremely high memory usage on
 some dirauths. For gabelmoo, I notice that the usage is certainly a lot
 higher than it used to be, and that it seems to grow rapidly with drawn-
 out multiple day "plateau" phases of virtually no increase in memory
 footprint. What are debug mechanisms (beyond our default usage of
 valgrind, which doesn't think there are any leaks) that I might be able to
 use here?

 This is a somewhat big issue for me, as gabelmoo makes the system swap and
 therefore unresponsive, so that I have to restart it frequently

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