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Fix memory leaks in long-running Docker container streams#12

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Fix memory leaks in long-running Docker container streams#12
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Copilot AI commented Aug 19, 2025

Problem

The stream-webpage-container was experiencing memory leaks when running continuously for several days. Memory usage would gradually increase over time, eventually causing performance degradation or container crashes in long-running deployments.

Root Cause Analysis

Investigation revealed several sources of memory leaks:

  1. Incomplete Process Cleanup: FFmpeg processes were killed with Process.Kill() but child processes weren't properly terminated, leading to zombie process accumulation
  2. Chrome Browser Resource Leaks: Chrome contexts were cancelled but browser processes weren't explicitly cleaned up, causing memory to accumulate over restarts
  3. Missing Process Group Management: No process group handling meant child processes could survive parent termination
  4. Resource Accumulation: The infinite restart loop gradually accumulated resources without explicit cleanup between iterations

Solution

This PR implements comprehensive memory leak fixes:

Enhanced Process Management

  • Graceful Termination: Processes now receive SIGTERM with a 3-second timeout before SIGKILL
  • Process Groups: FFmpeg processes use Setpgid: true to enable complete process tree cleanup
  • Child Process Cleanup: Added explicit process group termination to kill all child processes

Chrome Browser Resource Management

  • Explicit Process Cleanup: New cleanupChromeProcesses() function kills remaining Chrome processes
  • Memory Management Flags: Added Chrome flags like max_old_space_size=512 and memory-pressure-off
  • Enhanced Context Cleanup: Improved defer blocks with proper timing for resource cleanup

Memory Monitoring and Management

  • Garbage Collection: Added strategic runtime.GC() calls before stream starts and after cleanup
  • Memory Statistics: New logMemoryStats() function tracks heap usage, GC cycles, and system memory
  • Periodic Cleanup: Every 10 restarts, performs full cleanup with memory monitoring
  • Resource Limits: Added GOMEMLIMIT="512MiB" to constrain Go memory usage

Startup Optimizations

# Added to start.sh
export GOMEMLIMIT="512MiB"
export GOGC=100
pkill -f chrome 2>/dev/null || true  # Cleanup existing processes

Testing

Added comprehensive tests:

  • TestCleanupChromeProcesses() - Validates Chrome process cleanup
  • TestStopStreamWithProcessGroup() - Tests process group termination
  • Manual testing confirms memory statistics logging and cleanup behavior

Expected Impact

These changes should eliminate memory leaks for long-running containers by ensuring:

  • Zero zombie processes through complete process tree cleanup
  • Bounded memory growth via regular garbage collection and memory limits
  • Proper resource cleanup of all contexts, processes, and handles
  • Operational visibility through memory usage monitoring

The container should now be suitable for multi-day continuous operation without memory accumulation.

Breaking Changes

None - all changes are backward compatible and don't affect the API or configuration.

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Copilot AI and others added 2 commits August 19, 2025 07:06
Co-authored-by: Zozman <1192364+Zozman@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Zozman <1192364+Zozman@users.noreply.github.com>
Copilot AI changed the title [WIP] There seems to be a memory leak when running this repo as a docker container as there is an increase in memory usage if run for several days. Diagnose what might be the cause and propose a solution. Fix memory leaks in long-running Docker container streams Aug 19, 2025
Copilot AI requested a review from Zozman August 19, 2025 07:15
@Zozman Zozman closed this Aug 21, 2025
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