Re: [xml] Memory not going away..

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 12:04:51PM -0500, David W. Bauer Jr. wrote:
> I re-compiled with --mem-debug and this is the contents of .memdump:
>
>       11:47:59 AM
>
>       MEMORY ALLOCATED : 0, MAX was 222911016
> BLOCK  NUMBER   SIZE  TYPE
>
>
> That's it. 

  okay, perfect, libxml2 released with free() all the memory it allocated
with malloc().

> Also, I wrote a quick test to verify what I thought to be
> true.. that is that Linux reports the memory correctly as you alloc/free.
> I tested both calloc and malloc and top, ps and /proc were all correct.
>
> I think that have some not configured properly since memdump is empty.

   no, no... allocated is 0, free() had been called correctly for all
chunk of memory.

> Also, does it sounds correct that the parser requires 10 times the XML
> file size in memory?  That is just something I noticed.

   Not the parser, the DOM tree, yes that's possible depending on the
ratio of data to markup.

Daniel

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