[AG-TECH] Rat Linux Memory Leak

[Douglas Kosovic]

Hi Todd,

When you mentioned vic & rat don't start for you with the VenueClient on F14, do they come up if you go to the APAG lobby? i.e. :
  https://vv3.ap-accessgrid.org:8000/Venues/default

On a F14 virtual machine, vic/rat don't startup when I go to the ANL lobby, but work fine with APAG lobby.

As for testing an older source version of rat (<= svn release 4393) like Chris suggests, download rat-4.4.01-0.1.20080731svn.fc8.src.rpm from:
  http://www.vislab.uq.edu.au/ag3/fedora/8/SRPMS/

then rebuild with the following:
  rpmbuild --rebuild rat-4.4.01-0.1.20080731svn.fc8.src.rpm

once built, install by first removing the currently installed version of rat, e.g.:

rpm -e --nodeps rat
rpm -i rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/rat-4.4.01-0.1.20080731svn.fc14.x86_64.rpm


Cheers,
Doug
  
On 18 March 2011 10:05 PM, Chris Willing wrote:

> This has just reminded me of a similar problem that was discussed here:
> https://lists.mcs.anl.gov/mailman/htdig/ag-tech/2010-November/021910.html
> 
> To summarise, there were some changes to rat quite a while ago which only
> produce the memory eating symptoms with certain combinations of rat and
> ALSA/Pulse audio etc. To fix the Ubuntu case, I rebuilt the rat package with
> the source code from svn release 4393.
> 
> Doug, if you have time, I suggest you build a new rat package using
> r4891 and let Todd test it with F14. There's a 4393 source tarball at:
>      http://www.vislab.uq.edu.au/ag3/distfiles/mmedia-r4393.tar.bz2
> 
> 
> chris
> 
> 
> Christoph Willing                       +61 7 3365 8316
> QCIF Access Grid Manager
> University of Queensland