Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 10:43:59 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: SEGV in conv_path_list_buf_size with xemacs-21.5-b13 and cygwin-snapshot-20030904-1 Message-ID: <20030913084359.GN9981@cygbert.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20030910085841.GA1859@cygbert.vinschen.de> <16215.25725.555006.332144@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <16222.14630.498481.227468@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <16226.8585.30792.371032@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <16226.14655.873792.418770@gargle.gargle.HOWL> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <16226.14655.873792.418770@gargle.gargle.HOWL> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 04:23:11PM -0500, Pete McCann wrote: > Pete McCann writes: > > Corinna Vinschen writes: > > > Can you check how often the function cygwin_posix_to_win32_path_list_buf_size() > > > is called? Does that happen fairly often? > > > > > > Corinna > > > > That function is called about 600 - 700 times (sometimes as many as > > 2000-3000) when I do a simple operation like checking for new mail in > > the spool file. cygheap_max grows steadily with each call. > > And, I don't see a destructor for path_conv that would free > normalized_path. Perhaps this is the source of the memory leak? > Note that a path_conv is created on the stack inside > conv_path_list_buf_size at path.cc, line 3627. The problem should be solved in CVS. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/