Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Fri, 12 Sep 1997 13:06:48 -0700
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
To:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Cc:        Graham Wheeler <gram@cdsec.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Memory leak in getservbyXXX?
Message-ID:  <3419A0D8.7DE14518@whistle.com>
References:  <199709121226.WAA02951@word.smith.net.au>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Mike Smith wrote:
> 
> > > If it's a memory leak then it sounds like it's inside the stdio
> > > library, possibly in fopen()/fclose().  Without more data it's going to
> > > be hard to track this one.
> >
> > Tell me about it 8-(
> >
> > It does seem like a memory leak, as the memory use reported by top grows
> > over time. I have memory allocation debugging code which confirms that
> > I have no leaks in my code (at least of C++ objects), and the fact that
> > older sites have been running for months seems to confirm this.
> 
> OK.  More to the point then it sounds like it's a memory leak due to
> some change in stdio.  That's getting slightly easier to chase I 

they aren't using the threaded libc are they?



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?3419A0D8.7DE14518>