MagicStack / MagicStack/asyncpg
Memory leak with Pool usage
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Description
* **asyncpg version**: 0.27
* **PostgreSQL version**: 14
* **Do you use a PostgreSQL SaaS? If so, which? Can you reproduce
the issue with a local PostgreSQL install?**: no
* **Python version**: 3.8, 3.10 and 3.11
* **Platform**: docker images python:3.x-slim-buster
* **Do you use pgbouncer?**: no
* **Did you install asyncpg with pip?**: yes
* **Can the issue be reproduced under both asyncio and
[uvloop](https://github.com/magicstack/uvloop)?**: only asyncio
When we use a Pool, the memory usage of our process keeps increasing slowly with the number of queries. After 1000 queries, it is ~10MB and this increases with the number of queries executed on connections acquired from the pool. This remains after the max_inactive_connection_lifetime has passed with no activity, with explicit garbage collection and even after we close the pool. We can reproduce this with a psutil measurement and observe it in production. When we replace the usage of Pool with our own creation/cleanup of asynpg Connections, the issue dissapears.
Pool created with the following arguments:
```
asyncpg.create_pool(
max_inactive_connection_lifetime=300,
command_timeout=30,
min_size=0,
max_size=5
)
```
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Research direction
Start at the asyncpg.create_pool entry point with the reported pool arguments, and reproduce the gradual memory increase using the described psutil measurement. Compare pooled connections with direct asyncpg connections, including after max_inactive_connection_lifetime, explicit garbage collection, and pool closure. Done means the reproduction no longer shows query-count-related growth.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- postgresql, python
- Domain
- databases
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100