Re: [Pan-users] Leaks in 0.13.93

[Dave Hill]

On Tue, 1 Apr 2003 11:44:43 -0800
Charles Kerr <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 07:22:58PM +0100, Dave Hill wrote:
> > On Tue, 1 Apr 2003 04:57:37 -0800
> > Charles Kerr <address@hidden> 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.
> > > 
> > 
> > OK, I just did "valgrind --num-callers=32 --logfile-fd=9
> > --leak-check=yes --leak-resolution=high pan 9>logfile.txt", then I
> > did a"get new headers from all subscribed groups" and then quit.
> > Valgrind says it definitely lost 49 bytes in 5 blocks and possibly
> > lost 800 bytes in 20 blocks. Is this the sort of thing you're
> > looking for or is that just "in the noise".
> 
> Go ahead and mail the leak output offlist at address@hidden,
> but we're talking about less than 1K, so none of these are the
> source of your memory problems.

It was attached to the post (zipped).

I'm not actually having problems, I was just trying to help, since you
said anyone can try. Since I did everything right, I can continue to
test and if I see anything badly wrong, I'll post the result.

Dave

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