Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 14:28:04 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu> To: Jason T Glick <jason@cs.cs.miami.edu> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Memory Leak Problem Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.92.960404142226.9803F-100000@fieber-john.campusview.indiana.edu> In-Reply-To: <31616D0E.DDA@cs.miami.edu>
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On Tue, 2 Apr 1996, Jason T Glick wrote: > I want to use Motif with FreeBSD v2.1.0. I was told by X Inside that FreeBSD > has a "memory leak problem" that arises when used with their Motif v2.0. Is > this true? And if so, has the problem been resolved? On an "out of the box" compile, mwm does indeed leak. If the problem is in the library, then others will as well, but I have not run any other apps long enough to really tell. It leaks both with gnumalloc and phkmalloc, although it leeks a little faster with the latter. I have not tried it with the old libc malloc. Regrettably, I don't have time to work on tracking down the problem. That said, I don't think it in any way renders Motif unusable, but if I were a commercial organization selling it, I'd sure want to fix it first. The magnitude of the leak? At startup, the vss of mwm is around 900K. After a good heavy day of use with phkmalloc it grows to around 4000K. With gnumalloc it gets to about 2500K under roughly the same use. I just restart mwm every couple days and its fine. -john == jfieber@indiana.edu =========================================== == http://fieber-john.campusview.indiana.edu/~jfieber ============
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