Re: [Pan-users] Leaks in 0.13.93

[Brian Morrison]

On Tue, 1 Apr 2003 04:57:37 -0800, Charles Kerr wrote:

>On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 04:12:09PM -0800, Steven Ellis wrote:
>> 
>> No sign of the memory leaks being fixed is there. I
>> was running 0.13.92 last night and performed a load of
>> some of the larger Binary groups and saw Pan's memory
>> usage get to above 600 Mb before it was killed by the
>> kernel.
>
>Valgrind logs detailing the leaks are welcomed.
>The pan-users mail archive has valgrind leak-finding
>instructions.
>
>I have already spent more than a day trying to track down
>memory leaks, which never seem to come about on my system,
>and am hesitant to spend more time on it unaided.
>
>The last time I suggested a valgrind run, the pan-users
>response was, IIRC, "it made Pan run really slow so I'm
>not going to do it".  So for now that's also my response
>to this reported memory leak.

If someone is loading groups with large binaries in then I can't see
why memory usage should not get that big, it does not necessarily mean
there's a leak. Perhaps Pan speculatively loads decoded stuff into
memory so if you want to save the file it takes less time?

But hey, what do I know? I have a gig of RAM in the machine I run Pan
on.....

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Brian Morrison                                       address@hidden
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