Re: memory leaks in orbit

[Sebastian Wilhelmi <wilhelmi ira uka de>]

Hi Abhishek,

>    All the orbit servers (or servant) executables are leaking some memory on
> repeated calls. I have tested this for orbit-name-server(redhat7/uClinux) and
> also for echo-server(on uClinux).
> 
>    I even used the preinstalled(that came as part of redhat7) orbit-name
> server and got the same leaks. My estimate puts the leak to around 100 bytes
> per call (may vary). The attached file shows how to reproduce the same on
> linux (redhat7) and also the logs of process size as it grew.
> 
>    The installed version said "libIDL 0.6.8 (CORBA 2.2)" while the debugging
> version is 0.5.7 of ORBit. The debug version had communication over n/w
> enabled in the code, while no such effort was undertaken for installed
> orbit-name-server.
> 
>    I am sure others would have noticed this.
>    Any suggestion as to how to fix it would be welcome.

What do you expect? You are doing 

name-client --stdin bind_new_context test4

So you are creating new contexts on the server side. That of course has to
consume memory. For echo-server I can see no leaks, actually.

Bye,
Sebastian
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