Re: Memory allocation/deallocations in swarm -- lead to thrashing?

[Rob Kewley]

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> 
> Hi, again
> Now swarm-1.0.5 is released, I have a question about memory management
> in swarm.  Hopefully someone out there can help me on this issue and
> at the same time, I hope that I don't offend anyone with my question.
> BTW, I'm using swarm-1.0.2 now.
> 
> It seems that swarm applications seems to "eat-up" the main memory
> and the size of memory usage grows  monotonically. Not only my own  swarm
> applications (well, I may still have hidden memory leak...) but also simple
> applications such as heatbugs grow their memory consumptions. Since the
> pop. size in heatbugs is static, I am a bit puzzled of the "memory leak."
> If you haven't tried, run heatbugs in batchmode for a large
> durations. Then check the memory usage by using the commands either
> "ps u" or "ps m" (The command may slightly different for different OSs)
> You can see the amount of memory used by heatbugs grows slowly but steadily.
> 

Update your Swarm release.  Your leak may be caused by bugs which have
been already fixed.

Rob Kewley

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