[Gambas-user] Memory

[Benoît Minisini]

Le 26/02/2012 21:14, Benoît Minisini a écrit :
> Le 26/02/2012 15:24, Fabien Bodard a écrit :
>> Why in these example the memory seem to be not freed ?
>>
>
> I have looked that for two hours, and my conclusion is that Gambas frees
> the memory by telling the glibc to do so, but the glibc actually does
> not free it!
>
> So the leak does not come from Gambas. It comes from the glibc that does
> not give the memory back to the system even if Gambas has explicitely
> freed it!
>
> For example, with this project, when the message "Can you see?" appears,
> Gambas has freed everything except 1Mb of memory (I have counted). The
> KDE task manager says that the program takes 131Mb of memory!
>
> Could it be a fragmentation problem? I don't know how the glibc malloc()
> works behind the scene. I will "google the program", but if anybody has
> any clue...
>

We are not alone...

http://pushingtheweb.com/2010/06/python-and-tcmalloc/

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Benoît Minisini