Memory leak when processing multiples file on a distributed network

[oarcher]

This only occur when using the network to access worker, or using protocol='tcp://' kw in LocalCluster

Both memory of master and worker increase.

Step to reproduce (with a sequential loop):

cluster = LocalCluster(protocol='tcp://')   # ok with protocol='inmem://'
client = Client(cluster)

for safe in safes:
    ds = xsar.open_dataset(safe)
    ds.lon.compute()
    gc.collect()
    print(process.memory_info().rss / (1024 ** 2))   # increase at each loop

see also 'unmanaged memory' increasing in dask dashboard

[oarcher]

The problem seems to occur in xsar.Sentinel1Dataset, when the function passed to map_blocks is a xsar.Sentinel1Meta instance method (ie self.s1meta.coords2ll)

Using weakref, or copy.deepcopy doesn't solve the problem.

One workaround is to instantiate s1meta on the worker, no there is no serialization of the s1meta object.

[agrouaze]

update of this issue after release v0.9:
opening SLC products in a for loop does not trigger any memory leak because map_blocks are not called by default.
opening GRD products in a for loop does trigger a memory leak of about +4Mo per IW products.

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iteration #2, memory=641.072 Mo:   5%|██████▋                                                                                                                                  | 3/61 [00:08<02:38,  2.74s/it]

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iteration #4, memory=649.328 Mo:   8%|███████████▏                                                                                                                             | 5/61 [00:13<02:30,  2.68s/it]

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iteration #5, memory=655.236 Mo:  10%|█████████████▍                                                                                                                           | 6/61 [00:16<02:26,  2.66s/it]
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