Opened 12 years ago
Closed 7 years ago
#8905 closed defect (fixed)
Memory leak in echelon over QQ
Reported by: | SimonKing | Owned by: | tbd |
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Priority: | major | Milestone: | sage-duplicate/invalid/wontfix |
Component: | memleak | Keywords: | memleak echelonize |
Cc: | mderickx | Merged in: | |
Authors: | Reviewers: | ||
Report Upstream: | N/A | Work issues: | |
Branch: | Commit: | ||
Dependencies: | Stopgaps: |
Description
Apparently there is a memory leak in Sage-4.4 when one echelonizes a matrix over QQ
:
sage: MS = MatrixSpace(QQ,8) sage: M = MS.random_element() sage: N = copy(M) sage: N.echelonize() sage: N==M False sage: mem = get_memory_usage() sage: n = 0 sage: while(1): ....: n+=1 ....: if get_memory_usage()>mem: ....: mem = get_memory_usage() ....: print mem,n ....: N = copy(M) ....: N.echelonize() ....: 797.95703125 1 798.0859375 32 798.21484375 71 798.34375 110 798.47265625 155 798.6015625 199 798.8515625 202 798.98046875 243 799.109375 292 799.23828125 329 799.37109375 371 799.5 406 799.79296875 426 799.921875 471 800.05078125 530 800.1796875 582 800.30859375 634 800.61328125 666 ...
Here I show that the critical step really is the echelon form:
sage: MS = MatrixSpace(QQ,8) sage: M = MS.random_element() sage: N = copy(M) sage: mem = get_memory_usage() sage: n = 0 sage: while(1): ....: n+=1 ....: if get_memory_usage()>mem: ....: mem = get_memory_usage() ....: print mem,n ....: N = copy(M) ....: 797.92578125 1
The memory consumption is stable at that point. So, copying M
is no problem, but computing the echelon form is!
Change History (15)
comment:1 Changed 12 years ago by
- Milestone set to sage-4.4.2
comment:2 Changed 12 years ago by
comment:3 Changed 12 years ago by
I guess #10262 might explain both of these leaks. I wouldn't find it strange that somewhere in both algorithms scalar*vector multiplication happens.
comment:4 Changed 12 years ago by
- Cc mderickx added
comment:5 Changed 9 years ago by
- Milestone changed from sage-5.11 to sage-5.12
comment:6 Changed 9 years ago by
- Milestone changed from sage-6.1 to sage-6.2
comment:7 Changed 8 years ago by
- Milestone changed from sage-6.2 to sage-6.3
comment:8 Changed 8 years ago by
- Milestone changed from sage-6.3 to sage-6.4
comment:9 Changed 7 years ago by
- Milestone changed from sage-6.4 to sage-duplicate/invalid/wontfix
- Status changed from new to needs_review
Seems to be fixed indeed.
┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ SageMath Version 6.6.rc2, Release Date: 2015-04-02 │ [...] sage: MS = MatrixSpace(QQ,8) sage: M = MS.random_element() sage: N = copy(M) sage: N.echelonize() sage: N==M False sage: mem = get_memory_usage() sage: n = 0 sage: while(1): ....: n+=1 ....: if get_memory_usage()>mem: ....: mem = get_memory_usage() ....: print mem,n ....: N = copy(M) ....: N.echelonize() ....: 1006.625 2302 1006.875 19154 1007.0078125 27590 1007.2578125 36321
comment:10 follow-up: ↓ 11 Changed 7 years ago by
- Status changed from needs_review to needs_info
Marco, the numbers you are giving indicate that the memory leak is smaller than before. But why do you think it is fixed?
comment:11 in reply to: ↑ 10 ; follow-up: ↓ 12 Changed 7 years ago by
- Milestone changed from sage-duplicate/invalid/wontfix to sage-6.6
- Status changed from needs_info to needs_work
Replying to SimonKing:
Marco, the numbers you are giving indicate that the memory leak is smaller than before. But why do you think it is fixed?
No, you are right, I misread the results. It looks like we are still leaking about 16 bytes per call.
comment:12 in reply to: ↑ 11 Changed 7 years ago by
Replying to mmezzarobba:
No, you are right, I misread the results. It looks like we are still leaking about 16 bytes per call.
I wouldn't be so quick to conclude linear behaviour from so few data points. I'm getting:
1130.9375 1 1131.1875 5107 1131.4375 22580 1131.6875 39743
and no further increase up to n=738068
(after which I gave up). Echelonization over QQ likely leads to very complicated memory use (lots of allocation/deallocation), so together with non-deterministic gc (because parents only clear on triggered GC) you expect that the memory layout shows a lot of short-term fluctuations: fragmentation will lead to slowly increasing memory footprint; hopefully stabilizing over long periods. The numbers above are quite consistent with that. Certainly gc.objects() is not showing any significant object accumulation, so any leak would have to be outside python.
I see no indication of a memory leak here anymore, but I guess you could valgrind it to be certain.
comment:13 Changed 7 years ago by
Yes, I came to the same conclusion after letting it run for a bit longer:
1005.9921875 376 1006.2421875 2015 1006.4921875 19150 1006.4921875 20000 1006.640625 30356 1006.890625 36624 1006.890625 40000 1006.890625 60000 1006.890625 80000 1007.140625 95959 1007.140625 100000 1007.140625 6000000
comment:14 Changed 7 years ago by
- Milestone changed from sage-6.6 to sage-duplicate/invalid/wontfix
- Status changed from needs_work to positive_review
Setting the ticket to duplicate/positive_review as we agree that the problem is fixed and there is no obvious regression test to add.
comment:15 Changed 7 years ago by
- Resolution set to fixed
- Status changed from positive_review to closed
Similarly, one gets
I guess the two are related.