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Bug #80853 Apparent memory leak in PHP 8 not present in 7.4
Submitted: 2021-03-10 19:59 UTC Modified: 2021-08-22 04:22 UTC
Votes:2
Avg. Score:5.0 ± 0.0
Reproduced:2 of 2 (100.0%)
Same Version:2 (100.0%)
Same OS:2 (100.0%)
From: zach at yembo dot ai Assigned:
Status: No Feedback Package: Reproducible crash
PHP Version: 8.0.3 OS: Alpine Linux
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2021-03-10 19:59 UTC] zach at yembo dot ai 
Description:
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Our product has an AWS SQS queue listener microservice that is an infinite loop that long polls SQS and processes messages as they come in. When using the php:7.4-fpm-alpine3.13 image from Docker Hub, the code runs indefinitely with no issues. However, when running the exact same application code using the php:8.0-fpm-alpine3.13 base image, we are seeing Kubernetes kill the pod due to exhausting the upper memory limit. 

We plotted the output of `kubectl top pods` over time, and found a long, slow climb over the course of 3-4 hours until the pod reaches the memory limit. Like many memory issues, I don't see any one smoking gun in the code. Since the 7.4 image works ok, I suspect there is a memory leak either introduced or exacerbated in PHP 8.

The codebase is fairly large and I'm not sure what particular area is causing the issue. Does anyone have ideas on how to pinpoint or where to look?

These links look generally related, but I'm not sure if there's any good way to tell if this is the same issue we are facing: 

1. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T247990
2. https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=79519

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 [2021-03-17 10:01 UTC] nikic@php.net 
I'd usually run the program under "USE_ZEND_ALLOC=0 valgrind --tool=massif php" to get memory profile, but I'm not sure if that works well for this kind of long-running code.
 [2021-08-12 10:59 UTC] nikic@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Feedback
 [2021-08-12 10:59 UTC] nikic@php.net 
I don't think there's anything I can do here without more information on where the leak comes from. I'm not aware of any new leaks or pseudo-leaks introduced in PHP 8.0, so don't have any immediate suggestions on what it could be.
 [2021-08-22 04:22 UTC] php-bugs at lists dot php dot net 
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