Potential Memory Leak

[LtMama]

I recently noticed a proportional trend between Santa app and santad's memory usage and a mac's uptime.
I've looked at multiple macs in our fleet (running 10.10/10.11/10.12) and it appears to be consistent with throughout.

We're running Santa pretty lightweight, Default configuration with 4 blacklisted binaries (OS X Installers)

Example of the uptime/usage trend:

Uptime	Total Santa Memory usage
1 hour	7.7 MB
7 days	230 MB
15 days	~520MB
42 days	~890MB
55 days	~1200MB

Let me know if there's anything else I can provide to help

[russellhancox]

Can you confirm you're running the latest version (0.9.16)? We're trying to reproduce but none of our machines seem to have unexpectedly high memory use.

We think it could be due to fast-user-switching which we don't really use but Santa is designed to support. A recent commit (5e4b835), which hasn't yet been included in a release could have inadvertently fixed this but we'd like to reproduce to confirm.

[tburgin]

Could you also provide your config?

cat /var/db/santa/config.plist

[LtMama]

@russellhancox
Turns out majority of users were still running 0.9.14 (we packaged 0.9.16 back in Feb, but didn't actually push it out to everyone face palm Pushed out now).

Having said that, the first 3 entries in that table were running 0.9.16, so although it's a smaller sample size, might still be the case. Also found another one running 0.9.16, uptime 28days, Santa using 1.8GB.

@tburgin
Hmmm, there doesn't appear to be a santa config.plist on any mac that I've checked

/var/db/santa
-rw------- 1 root wheel 5169152 9 Mar 19:19 events.db
-rw------- 1 root wheel 12288 10 Mar 09:51 rules.db
-rw------- 1 root wheel 12824 10 Mar 09:51 rules.db-journal

Currently, we've just left Santa in the default MONITOR mode, and been adding items to the blacklist by sending a payload-free package containing 4 santactl commands

[tburgin]

Thanks, I am still unable to reproduce the issue. When you come across a machine that is in this state can you grab a memory graph and share it here?

sudo leaks santad -outputGraph ~/Desktop/santad.memgraph
sudo leaks Santa -outputGraph ~/Desktop/Santa.memgraph

[LtMama]

Sure thing. Got ones from the mac that was sitting on >1.8GB, but the files are about 30MB each, so Github's saying no. Want me to send them to you directly?

[tburgin]

Yeah, that would be great.
[email protected]

[tburgin]

It turns out when running without a config both binaries will leak around 24 bytes every 200ms.
This seems consistent with your real world findings.

24 bytes * 5 times per sec * 60 min * 60 hour * 24 day * 100 days
1.0368 gigabytes 

Fixed in #154