#52 Memory consumed by (cllib:open-url)

[Aneil Mallavarapu]

CLLIB:OPEN-URL seems to be chewing up memory. Evaling either (close (cllib:open-url (cllib:url "http://yahoo.com"))) or (cllib:with-open-url (stream "http://yahoo.com") ())chews up ~ 200-400K.

I think the problem is that background processes aren't being cleaned up. Check (mp:list-all-processes) on Lispworks, sys:*all-processes* on Allegro - you'll find a number of sleeping "Timeout Monitor" processes waiting around unused.

I could not replicate the problem using (port:with-timeout (5) (princ "in process")). The timeout processes may have a stream open or something, and are failing to get cleaned up? So, I'm assigning this to CLLIB.

[Aneil Mallavarapu]

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These comments refer to Allegro8, Lispworks 5.0.1 and Lispworks 4.4.6 on Windows XP.

[Sam Steingold]

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for how long do these "Timeout Monitor" processes persist?
they should be gone in 10 minutes.

[Aneil Mallavarapu]

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> for how long do these "Timeout Monitor" processes persist?
> they should be gone in 10 minutes.

Ten minutes seems like a rather long while to have processes hanging out - one could do quite a few http requests in that interval.

The processes are still present after at least 8 hours. I tried GC -(mark-and-sweep) on Lispworks - to no avail. I notice there's not a matching kill-process call in PORT:WITH-TIMEOUT is that intentional?

[Sam Steingold]

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there is no kill-process in WITH-TIMEOUT because the timer process should terminate as soon as the lambda finishes.