V8 usage causes memory leaks
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My app is using https://github.com/stuartsierra/component. As is expected w/ component, I create a new system for each test. Recently, tests started failing on CircleCI because my app was using more than 4GB of RAM. As part of my system creation, I create a full optimus middleware, with all optimizations enabled.
I was clearly leaking memory, and it wasn't part of the java heap. I ran the leak down, and it is caused by optimus leaking v8 context handles in optimus.optimizations.minify
As proof, run ps -o rss <pid of your clojure repl>
then run:
(dotimes [i 1000] (v8.core/cleanup-context (v8.core/create-context)))
observe essentially no increase in memory usage. Then run:
(dotimes [i 1000] (v8.core/create-context))
And note massive increase in memory usage. (500MB -> 1500MB for me). Note that every usage of v8/create-context in minify.clj fails to call v8.core/cleanup-context. If you repeatedly load assets, or minify a large number of files, this will cause enormous memory usage.
Ouch!