[gephex-devel] Memory leak in stringtokenizer module?

[Martin Bayer]

Hi Herb,

> I've encountered a really serious problem obviously regarding the
> stringtokenizer module.
> 
> I've attached two graphs where the first one runs fine (testleak2) while
> the second one (testleak3) increases virtual memory usage of the engine
> by about 10MB per second...

For a first look the leak is not in the stringtokenizer, as the update
code is quite simple and doesn't allocate memory on the heap.

I guess the problem is located in the sdl_image driver of the frbinmodule.

I added a new entry to the bugtracker:

 http://bugs.gephex.org/show_bug.cgi?id=151

> How can I find out about that memory leak (I've tried valgrind and other
> tools and using ulimit, but the last is especially complicated because
> of all the wrapper scripts)?

Just start it with gephex-engine-real and gephex-gui-real. The wrapper
scripts are only important at the first startup.

Martin
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