[Gambas-user] Memory

Fabien Bodard gambas.fr at ...626...
Sun Feb 26 21:39:57 CET 2012


Le 26 février 2012 21:28, Benoît Minisini
<gambas at ...1...> a écrit :
> 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/

Is there a way to use theire soluce ?


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