Re: [Pan-users] 0.13.4 memory leaks

[Brian Morrison]

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On Sun, 9 Mar 2003 14:41:30 -0800 (PST) in
address@hidden Steven Ellis
<address@hidden> wrote:

> > That sounds like the usual VM OOM problem rather
> > than Pan as such.
> 
> What VM 00M problem? I use RH 7.2 with a custom 2.4.20
> kernel and I have the same problem with Pan 0.13.4 and
> 0.13.90. Eventually Pan eats all the memory on the box
> after performing a large number of big binary
> downloads.

Even now the 2.4 kernel series can fall over when all virtual memory is
consumed. Assuming that Pan is actually using the memory (and you might
be right, there could be a leak) then at some point the system simply
can't continue and so it tries to kill tasks that are unimportant. But
this does not always work properly.

I don't do binaries so I never see this behaviour, however I'd take
Charles' suggestion and run valgrind.

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Brian Morrison

bdm at fenrir dot org dot uk
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