[llvm-dev] [cfe-dev] Limit clangd ram and processor usage

[Deep Majumder via llvm-dev]

Thank you Sam and Nathan! This has solved the memory build up problem.
Warm regards,
Deep

On Thu, 11 Mar, 2021, 7:30 pm Sam McCall, <sammccall at google.com> wrote:

> Hi Deep,
>
> If you're running a relatively standard linux system such as ubuntu then
> you're using the platform-standard glibc malloc which was affected by this
> bug.
> If you're using the 11 release or earlier i'm fairly sure the bug Nathan
> mentioned is the cause.
>
> In that case, can you try
> https://github.com/clangd/clangd/releases/tag/12.0.0-rc2 (or building
> from source, or downloading one of the LLVM 12 RC binary releases)?
>
> Cheers, Sam
>
> On Tue, Mar 9, 2021 at 3:42 PM Deep Majumder via cfe-dev <
> cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
>
>> HI Nathan,
>> How do I ascertain that I have ptmalloc2 on my system (I am on Ubuntu
>> 20.04 btw).
>> The file /usr/include/malloc.h is not the same as the file at
>> https://github.com/emeryberger/Malloc-Implementations/blob/master/allocators/ptmalloc/ptmalloc2/malloc.h
>> (this is the version of ptmalloc2 I found online).
>> Warm regards,
>> Deep
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 9, 2021 at 7:57 PM Nathan James <n.james93 at hotmail.co.uk>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Deep,
>>>
>>> Does your system use glibcs ptmalloc2(most linux systems do). If that
>>> is the case, there was an issue with the allocation patterns used in
>>> clangd causing arenas to continuously grow. This has been addressed in
>>> the upcoming clangd-12 release. If that's not the case, would you
>>> consider filing a bug report at https://github.com/clangd/clangd/issues
>>>  please.
>>>
>>> ~
>>> Nathan James
>>>
>>> On Tue, 2021-03-09 at 19:16 +0530, Deep Majumder via cfe-dev wrote:
>>> > Hi everyone,
>>> > I use clangd in Neovim (and CoC). Now the thing is that clangd while
>>> > working on llvm source code peaks CPU usage on 4 cores. The RAM usage
>>> > spikes to about 3gb. Is there a way to limit this?
>>> > Warm regards,
>>> > Deep
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