Hi Basil.
This issue happens on multi-cast only, or on uni-cast as well?
Regards.
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Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 7:53 PM
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Subject: ReflectorSession leakage
Hi,
There's a bug in the reflector module that prevents ReflectorSession
from being deleted. While the impact on memory and CPU is low, a much
bigger issue is that multicast groups aren't left when clients
disconnect. This means that all streams ever requested/reflected are
being routed to the server node forever, wasting bandwidth and money.
See also:
http://lists.apple.com/archives/Streaming-server-users/2008/Apr/msg00117
.html
The problem is that a session is created for RTSP DESCRIBE even though
describe has nothing to do with the RTSP session life cycle and
therefore shouldn't affect reflector sessions. This is however just a
design oddity; the bug is that even though no session reference is kept,
(and rightfully so as it would be a potential leak too) the reference
isn't released at the end of DoDescribe. So, typically, we have:
DESCRIBE (count: 1)
SETUP (count: 2)
TEARDOWN (count: 1) <- should be 0
--
DESCRIBE (count: 2)
SETUP (count: 3)
TEARDOWN (count: 2) <- should be 0
.... and so on. The ref count increases with every stream played,
eventually even causing an assertion failure in OSRefTable::Release.
The solution is to release the session reference at the end of
DoDescribe and delete the session unless referenced by RTP outputs.
Patch against 6.0.3 is attached: The multicast group is now left as
expected and routing stops after regular teardown or session timeout.
Cheers,
Basil
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