Re: Memory leak while connecting different APs!!



On Mon, 2007-04-23 at 20:19 +0800, Dannis Lin wrote:
> I use top to monitor the memory usage of Network Manager (daemon, not
> applet). I found there are more than 10K memory leaks each time while
> changing from one connected AP to another. There's an easy way to
> duplicate this. Just continuously change the connection between wired
> and wireless via applet, the memory leak can be easily observed. 
> 
> Another problem is running out of file descriptor. When connecting to
> an AP, Network Manager will exec wpa_supplicant and create a pipe to
> get the stdout from wpa_supplicant. This pipe is not closed after
> killing wap_supplicant. But I think this is only a temporary problem.
> Since the control of wpa_supplicant will be changed to DBus
> interface. :) 

Furthermore, the stdout pipe stuff is removed from 0.6.5, so it's no
longer a problem there.

Dan

> By the way, any idea about the memory leak?
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