Re: [gnet-dev] Memory leak.



Replied to on bugzilla.

Bugs reported on Fridays often don't get responded to until Monday
evening.  :-)

David


On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 12:09, Chris wrote:
> I posted a bug on the 27th and I've been trying to find the source of this
> leak myself over the weekend with no success.  The bug is reproducable on
> both linux and FreeBSD.
> 
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116162
>
> If anybody has some insight to it other than blaming the stdc lib function
> getaddrinfo() please let me know.  This might seem small (4 bytes per
> connection) but on a long-running program with thousands of connections, it
> leaks 50mb+ per hour and the program has to be restarted every few hours
> before it runs out of memory to alloc.
> 
> To reproduce the bug, just let this run for a while and watch the usage
> (top/ps/whatever):
> 
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <stdlib.h>
> #include <unistd.h>
> #include <gnet.h>
> void memory_test() {
> GInetAddr* addr=gnet_inetaddr_new("doro.limsi.fr",6666);
> gnet_inetaddr_delete(addr);
> }
> int main() {
> gnet_init();
> while (1) {
> memory_test();
> usleep(1000);
> }
> return(0);
> }
> 
> This code was just a modified version of a bug posted a while back, on linux
> it doesn't seem to leak as much, but leave it run for a day and it will eat
> up a ridiculous amount of memory.  On FreeBSD the effect is noticable almost
> immediately.
> 
> Chris
> 
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