X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=4.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,BOTNET,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-id: <4E2871B5.4000101@cygwin.com> Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 14:36:37 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-to: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:5.0) Gecko/20110624 Thunderbird/5.0 MIME-version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: [bash or DLL] Memory leak in childs References: <4E26D160 DOT 8010004 AT valdetaro DOT com> In-reply-to: Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 On 7/21/2011 9:12 AM, AZ 9901 wrote: > Following your advice and BLODA documentation, I made tests in a fresh > / newly installed virtual environment (Windows XP / VirtualBox). > I did not notice any problem at all. > So I decided to run tests booting my suffering environment in safe > mode (F8 at boot time, then safe mode). > Once again, no problem at all. > > So yes, memory leak is due to background programs which interfer with the OS. > > Unfortunately, it is sometime not possible to find out which component > is responsible, and to clean it (production environment, > customers...). > So, my next question is, do you have any advice to avoid or limit memory leak ? > - specific bash scripting method / tips ; > - program to call to free memory ; > - another method to fork that would avoid memory leak (patched DLL, > wrokaround...) ; > - ... ? Your best bet is to report the problem to the provider of the product that's interfering. You should be able to zero in on the product by booting into safe mode and then turning on, one by one, the services that safe mode omits and running the test. When you see the problem again, you'll know what product is responsible. Another alternative is to try a snapshot. There have been some recent changes that could help in your situation. -- Larry _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple