Re: Memory leak with inout parameters

[Alex Hornby <alex anvil co uk>]

On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 15:20, Arne Georg Gleditsch wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm seeing memory leaks in my Perl application which I think are
> attributable to ORBit in some way.  I'll append test cases, as they're
> fairly small.  The test cases have been run on Linux (as the /proc-
> usage indicates), but I've observed this behaviour on Solaris as well.
> I've tried this with Perl 5.6.1, Perl-ORBit 0.4.17 and ORBit 0.5.16.
> The differences to ORBit 0.5.17 do not look significant.  I've run the
> test case with 1000000 iterations, and seem to be losing ~ 58.7 bytes
> for each call.  I'm looking for info on whether anyone else sees this
> as well as hints on where to start debugging.
> 
> 
> 							Arne.

Hi Arne,

Are the leaks in the client or the server? 

If you are on Linux you could try running your tests under valgrind (
see http://developer.kde.org/~sewardj/ ).

Cheers,
Alex.