Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2005 23:04:40 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Problem with pthreads (serious memory leaks) Message-ID: <20050606030439.GA9161@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <20050606013259 DOT GA7319 AT trixie DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 02:28:45AM +0000, Arash Partow wrote: >Hi Chris, > >How many times can we do this dance ? he he he he :) > >The code given is as simple as its gonna get. This is the same >code used by Thomas Pfaff and by YOU to fix previous memory >leaks found in cygwin :) You may be right, but I don't remember ever having to wade through 308K worth of code to try to figure out a problem. Searching the archives, I see that you had a program called "ThreadTest" which exposed a stdio memory leak. I still have that program sitting around and it doesn't seem at all similiar to "example1". >OK in simple terms this is what I see: I run example1 and open up my >taskmanager and taskinfo and slowly watch the amount of memory example1 >is using increase continuously. And example1 is doing what? What functions is it calling? When did you notice this behavior? Is it only in 1.5.17? >I then focus on taskinfo (because it gives a more detailed >view), and examine the the different aspects of the application >running (the threads, the loaded modules etc...). Now I know >just as well as anyone else that because say a program crashes >in a standard lib routine, doesn't mean the routine is buggy. "crashes in a standard lib routine"? I don't see any mention of a crash in your previous email. A crash is sometimes easier to debug than a leak. What standard lib routine is this crashing in? cgf -- 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/