Merge pull request #8896 from influxdata/lh-batcher-leak

Fix a minor memory leak when batching points for some services.

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -68,6 +68,7 @@
 - [#8678](https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb/issues/8678): Ensure time and tag-based condition can be used with tsi1 index when deleting.
 - [#8848](https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb/issues/8848): Prevent deadlock when doing math on the result of a subquery.
 - [#8813](https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb/issues/8813): Fix retention policy duration format
+- [#8895](https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb/issues/8895): Fix a minor memory leak in batching points in tsdb. 
 
 ## v1.3.4 [unreleased]
 

tsdb/batcher.go

@@ -55,14 +55,27 @@ func (b *PointBatcher) Start() {
 		return
 	}
 
-	var timer *time.Timer
+	// initialize the timer variable
+	timer := time.NewTimer(time.Hour)
+	timer.Stop()
 	var batch []models.Point
-	var timerCh <-chan time.Time
 
 	emit := func() {
+
+		timer.Stop()
+		select {
+		case <-timer.C:
+		default:
+		}
+
+		// Nothing batched?
+		if len(batch) == 0 {
+			return
+		}
 		b.out <- batch
 		atomic.AddUint64(&b.stats.BatchTotal, 1)
 		batch = nil
+
 	}
 
 	b.wg = &sync.WaitGroup{}
@@ -73,18 +86,17 @@ func (b *PointBatcher) Start() {
 		for {
 			select {
 			case <-b.stop:
-				if len(batch) > 0 {
-					emit()
-					timerCh = nil
-				}
+				emit()
 				return
 			case p := <-b.in:
 				atomic.AddUint64(&b.stats.PointTotal, 1)
 				if batch == nil {
-					batch = make([]models.Point, 0, b.size)
+					if b.size > 0 {
+						batch = make([]models.Point, 0, b.size)
+					}
+
 					if b.duration > 0 {
-						timer = time.NewTimer(b.duration)
-						timerCh = timer.C
+						timer.Reset(b.duration)
 					}
 				}
 
@@ -92,16 +104,12 @@ func (b *PointBatcher) Start() {
 				if len(batch) >= b.size { // 0 means send immediately.
 					atomic.AddUint64(&b.stats.SizeTotal, 1)
 					emit()
-					timerCh = nil
 				}
 
 			case <-b.flush:
-				if len(batch) > 0 {
-					emit()
-					timerCh = nil
-				}
+				emit()
 
-			case <-timerCh:
+			case <-timer.C:
 				atomic.AddUint64(&b.stats.TimeoutTotal, 1)
 				emit()
 			}