Re: [gnome-db] Memory leaks

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Tue, 2002-05-14 at 16:48, sraimbault concept-iid fr wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> GDA : 0.2.96
> Compilation: ./configure --with-oracle --with-odbc
> 
> I use GDA for a commercial tool but my application becomes very slow 
> after few minutes. When I launch 'top', I see :
> 
> 71 processes: 68 sleeping, 3 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
> CPU states:  0,0% user, 100,0% system,  0,0% nice,  0,0% idle
> Mem:    94584K av,   91752K used,    2832K free,       0K shrd,    3040K buff
> Swap:  192772K av,   43740K used,  149032K free                   37328K cached
> 
>   PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
> 22809 root      20   0  5672 5672  2680 S    79,4  5,9   0:11 gda-postgres-sr
> 
> I ran memprof on my application and I saw some interesting results,
> the memory leaks follows GDA API calls (I have a memprof screenshot if you want).
> I extract some examples from memprof (attached file).
> 
> Last week, I asked some questions about GDA api on this mailing list, I think I
> use correctly GDA (see attached file).
> 
it's leaking a lot, it seems :-( The memprof log does not say much,
since it is supposed to be running, right? so the not-freed objects are
somewhat "normal".

> I can't use gda 0.8.X in my application so it's very important for me.
> 
why not? It does not depend on the whole GNOME 2, but glib-2.0 and
libxml, so you should be able to use it without much pain. And you'll be
sure to be using a library being developed heavily in these days, not a
piece of unmaintained code, which is what the 0.2.x series are.

So, I'd really propose you to switch to the 0.8.x series, much easier
and cleaner than the 0.2.x ones.

cheers