Re: [bug-gawk] Memory leak

[arnold]

Make that 263 meg.  Just checked.

I am comfortable that we don't have a true memory leak.

It's on my TODO list to try to reduce the overhead of array storage, but
that won't be in time for the next release.

Thanks,

Arnold

address@hidden wrote:

> "Andrew J. Schorr" <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > You might need to run valgrind with --leak-check=full --show-reachable=yes 
> > to
> > get to the bottom of this. I don't see any obvious leaks when I run that on 
> > the
> > 344-record file that you sent.
>
> That would be helpful.
>
> I ran gawk on a ~ 20 megabyte file and it hit a steady size as shown by
> top. I think that there aren't any real leaks here. Valgrind is generally
> good about reporting real leaks as "definitely lost" and I have yet to
> see that in this instance.
>
> It may be that we could reduce gawk's memory usage for arrays, but
> that's a different issue from a leak.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Arnold