Yaouh! out (update for tangogps maps)

[Helge Hafting]

Helge Hafting wrote:

> I noticed another problem yesterday though. I worked around the
> problem by making a symlink, and the program ran. I have
> slightly more than 50.000 tiles. After a while, Yaouh had worked through
> 12000, updating about 4000. It seems 1 in 3 tiles were changed.
> 
> This took a lot of time, so I left it running overnight. It crashed
> sometimes during the night, and the disk was not full.
> The log file merely told that yaouh.py was
> interrupted by a segmentation fault.
> 
> Could there be a memory leak? Or will yaouh use memory proportional to 
> the number of tiles (or perhaps the number of out-of-date tiles)?
> 
> With 128M and 50000 tiles, there is no more than 2684 bytes per tile. So 
> linear memory consumption will not work well.
> 
I think I may have found the problem. yaouh (and tangogps) outputs lots 
of text while working, and this text ends up in /var/volatile/tmp/x.log
(Or /tmp/x.log, /tmp symlinks to /var/tmp which again links to 
/var/volatile/tmp.)

The file is currently 30M, yaouh is not the only offender, but the
file keep growing.

Now, /var/volatile is tmpfs in main memory, so I am currently wasting 
30M of the precious 128M this phone has. (A quarter of all memory,
for a log file!)

This output is rarely seen by users. I guess it is useful for debugging,
but could be removed from a "production" release, or at least add a
debug flag that must be used to get output. If the amount of output is 
proportional to the amount of tiles being checker or downloaded, then 
some users will run out of memory just from that.


Looks like many programs like to fill this log. People who don't have 
swap, and see instability after "too much" uptime, may want to check the 
size of /var/volatile/tmp/x.log. My 30M accumulated over 4 days, I have 
swap to help me though. It looks like tmpfs is limited to half of 
memory, but the remaining 64M could get tight. Also, some programs don't 
like it when /tmp gets full.

A reboot fixes this, but we don't want to reboot to clear out logfiles. :-/

Helge Hafting