Memory Leak under FreeBSD 6.0 RELEASE

[Arun Balakrishnan]

My previous mail was this:

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Wow! Thanks a lot for the reply. The patch you provided really gave 
some insight on the underlying problem.

In our final product, the library will be loaded and used only once 
per instance. However the automated test suites for the library, do this 
for over 2000 times as part of functional testing and memory leak 
testing. In this we were getting a huge leak on FreeBSD.

One more question though. (Second one in the list of queries I had 
posted in my first mail.)

2. While executing this without Valgrind, in another terminal we did a
    "ps -Aopid,rss | grep LibLoader_" continuously in a loop and saw that
    the RSS (resident set size) field value keeps increasing by 4KB every
    now and then. The same experiment on GNU/Linux shows that RSS remains
    at the same value. What could be the cause for the ever rising RSS
    value?

Could you throw some light on what could be the possible reason for 
this? Is RSS value directly mappable to the leak that we see in libc? 
This is another issue that is acting as a show stopper for us.

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Thanks again,
~Arun

Kostik Belousov wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 10:54:45AM +0530, Arun Balakrishnan wrote:
> 
> I am unable to reply to HTML mail. Please, repost it with plain text
> content.


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