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• lavu : fix memory leaks by using a mutex instead of atomics

  14 novembre 2014, par wm4

  lavu : fix memory leaks by using a mutex instead of atomics
  The buffer pool has to atomically add and remove entries from the linked
  
  list of available buffers. This was done by removing the entire list
  
  with a CAS operation, working on it, and then setting it back again
  
  (using a retry-loop in case another thread was doing the same thing).
  This could effectively cause memory leaks : while a thread was working on
  
  the buffer list, other threads would allocate new buffers, increasing
  
  the pool’s total size. There was no real leak, but since these extra
  
  buffers were not needed, but not free’d either (except when the buffer
  
  pool was destroyed), this had the same effects as a real leak. For some
  
  reason, growth was exponential, and could easily kill the process due
  
  to OOM in real-world uses.
  Fix this by using a mutex to protect the list operations. The fancy
  
  way atomics remove the whole list to work on it is not needed anymore,
  
  which also avoids the situation which was causing the leak.
  Signed-off-by : Anton Khirnov <anton@khirnov.net>
  

  • [DH] libavutil/buffer.c
  • [DH] libavutil/buffer_internal.h

• lavu : fix memory leaks by using a mutex instead of atomics

  14 novembre 2014, par wm4

  lavu : fix memory leaks by using a mutex instead of atomics
  The buffer pool has to atomically add and remove entries from the linked
  
  list of available buffers. This was done by removing the entire list
  
  with a CAS operation, working on it, and then setting it back again
  
  (using a retry-loop in case another thread was doing the same thing).
  This could effectively cause memory leaks : while a thread was working on
  
  the buffer list, other threads would allocate new buffers, increasing
  
  the pool’s total size. There was no real leak, but since these extra
  
  buffers were not needed, but not free’d either (except when the buffer
  
  pool was destroyed), this had the same effects as a real leak. For some
  
  reason, growth was exponential, and could easily kill the process due
  
  to OOM in real-world uses.
  Fix this by using a mutex to protect the list operations. The fancy
  
  way atomics remove the whole list to work on it is not needed anymore,
  
  which also avoids the situation which was causing the leak.
  Signed-off-by : Anton Khirnov <anton@khirnov.net>
  

  • [DBH] libavutil/buffer.c
  • [DBH] libavutil/buffer_internal.h

• Announcement : Piwik to focus on Reliability, Performance and Security

  7 octobre 2014, par Matthieu Aubry — About, Community

  To our valued team and community,

  Well, we have moved fast and achieved so much during the past few months. Relentlessly releasing major version after major version… We got a lot done including several major new features !

  The speed of adding new features was a great showcase of how agile our small teams and the larger community are. And I’m so proud to see automated testing becoming common practice among everyone hacking on Piwik !

  For the next few months until the new year we will focus on making what we have better. We will fix those rare but longstanding critical bugs, and aim to solve all Major issues and other must-have performance and general improvements. The core team and Piwik PRO will have the vision of making the existing Piwik and all plugins very stable and risk free. This includes edge cases, general bugs but also specific performance issues for high traffic or issues with edge case data payloads.

  We’ll be more pro-active and take Piwik platform to the next level of Performance, Security, Privacy & Reliability ! We will prove to the world that Free/Libre Web software can be of the highest standard of quality. By focusing on quality we will make Piwik even easier to maintain and improve in the future. We are building the best open platform that will let every user liberate their data and keep full control of it.

  If you have any feedback or questions get in touch or let’s continue the discussion in the forum.

  Thank you for your trust and for liberating your data with Piwik,

  Matthieu Aubry
  Piwik founder

  More information

  • How long is each release of Piwik maintained for ? (FAQ)
  • When is the next release of Piwik ? What is the release schedule ? (FAQ)
  • Pulse of Piwik : our monthly pulse report shows 27 different people contributed to Piwik core in the last month !

  

  This is an amazing testament of the power of free/libre software and yet we think this is just the beginning. We hope more developers will join and contribute to the Piwik project !