Hi Harry:

Not sure if this is relevant, but we had a similar-sounding problem — check out 
https://github.com/zeromq/libzmq/issues/3186 
<https://github.com/zeromq/libzmq/issues/3186> and see if it might be helpful.

Regards,

Bill


> On Nov 4, 2020, at 2:54 AM, Harry Mander via zeromq-dev 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am having an unusual problem with memory usage and PUB/SUB sockets. Tested 
> in C with libzmq 4.3.3 on Ubuntu 18.04.
> 
> I have a process which is bound to a PUB socket whose memory footprint (as 
> measured by top, htop etc.) grows as other processes subscribe to the socket 
> with SUB. However, the memory footprint of the PUB process does not increase 
> when the SUB sockets are closed.
> 
> Publisher minimal test case, min-pub: https://pastebin.com/r85GZYcw 
> <https://pastebin.com/r85GZYcw>
> Subscriber minimal test case, min-sub: https://pastebin.com/9cw7tNgL 
> <https://pastebin.com/9cw7tNgL>
> 
> min-pub polls stdin for messages to send on `ipc://@test` socket. Memory 
> footprint increase can be seen on my machine by running `min-sub 100 info` 
> which creates 100 subscribers connected to `ipc://@test` and subscribes each 
> one to "info". Typing "info message" into min-pub causes messages to be 
> received fine in min-sub process. min-sub is closed by sending SIGINT (i.e. 
> Ctrl-C) before which the SUB sockets will unsubscribe from "info" and be 
> closed. min-pub is closed by sending EOF (i.e. Ctrl-D).
> 
> Each time min-sub is run the resident memory footprint of min-pub as observed 
> in htop increases and never decreases even after min-sub exits. If min-sub is 
> run enough times min-pub will be terminated by the OOM killer.
> 
> I have tested both sub and pub programs with memcheck and neither reports any 
> errors or memory leaks.
> 
> Regards,
> Harry
> 
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