I have an app built in Express 3.20. I keep it up and running with PM2. Watching the memory usage in PM2, I see it only takes a couple of hours for the usage to become >500MB for each process, at which point it starts having problems.
About 90% of the requests received by my app are for thumbnail images. So I am guessing that the memory leak is coming from the portion of my code that serves thumbnail images to the user.
The way the code works, a user requests an image of a certain size. The script checks to see if an image of that size already exists in the cache/ folder. If it it does, it sends that file to the client. If it does not, it uses graphicsMagick to create a new image in the cache/ folder, from the original image, and then sends it.
I am including the relevant code below. Can anyone tell me if I am doing anything obviously wrong here, that is causing things to hang around in memory?
Thanks (in advance) for your help.
var fs = require( "graceful-fs" ),
gm = require( "gm" );
function isOriginalNewer( orig, cache ) {
return orig.ctime > cache.ctime ? true : false;
}
function checkIfCachedImageUpToDate( originalPath, cachePath, cb ) {
fs.stat( originalPath, function( err, stat1 ) {
if ( err ) return cb( err );
fs.stat( cachePath, function( err, stat2 ) {
if ( err ) return cb( err );
if ( isOriginalNewer( stat1, stat2 ) ) {
cb ( null, false );
} else {
cb( null, true );
}
});
});
}
function createNewCachedImage( originalPath, cachePath, cacheSubDir, size, cb ) {
fs.exists( "cache/" + cacheSubDir, function ( exists ) {
if ( exists ) {
gm( originalPath ).resize( size, null, "^" ).quality( 95 ).write( cachePath, cb );
} else {
fs.mkdir( "resources/cache/" + cacheSubDir, 0750, function() {
gm( originalPath ).resize( size, null, "^" ).quality( 95 ).write( cachePath, cb );
});
}
});
}
function checkIfCached( originalPath, cachePath, cb ) {
fs.exists( cachePath, function( exists ){
if ( exists ) {
checkIfCachedImageUpToDate( originalPath, cachePath, function( err, isUpToDate ) {
if ( err ) return cb( err );
if ( isUpToDate ) cb( null, true );
else cb( null, false );
});
} else cb( null, false );
});
}
function getImagePath( filename, type, size, cb ) {
var originalPath = "originals/" + filename,
cacheFilename = hash.md5( originalPath ) + "." + size + ".jpg",
cacheSubDir = cacheFilename.substr( 0,2 ),
cachePath = "cache/" + cacheSubDir + "/" + cacheFilename;
checkIfCached( originalPath, cachePath, function( err, isCached ) {
if ( err ) return cb( err );
if ( isCached ) {
cb( null, cachePath );
} else {
fs.exists( originalPath, function( exists ) {
if ( !exists ) return cb( "File Not Found " + originalPath );
createNewCachedImage( originalPath, cachePath, cacheSubDir, size, function( err ) {
if ( err ) return cb( err );
cb( null, cachePath );
});
});
}
});
}
module.exports = function( app ){
app.get( "/image/:filename/:size", isLoggedIn, function( req, res, next ){
var p = sanitizeParams( req );
getImagePath( p.filename, p.size, function( err, imagePath ){
if ( err ) next( err );
else res.sendfile( imagePath );
});
});
};