Re: Memory leak in LWP is not cured with perl's malloc()

Byron Brummer (byron@omix.com)
Thu, 22 Jul 1999 14:14:39 +0000 (GMT)


Marc Langheinrich <marclang@cs.washington.edu> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 21, 1999 at 02:41:24AM +0300, Ilya Ketris wrote:
> > 	This program grows in size.  If you substitute
> > 	'http://www' with 'www', making it invalid URI, or with
> > 	'http://nosuchhost', making it not to resolve, it does
> > 	NOT grow.  'ftp://ftphost' grows as well.
> The above program works fine (i.e. without leaks) for me (constant use of
> about 2.0% after 2:00 minutes):

	Ditto for me.

	$LWP::VERSION == 5.41

Summary of my perl5 (5.0 patchlevel 5 subversion 3) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=freebsd, osvers=4.0-current, archname=i386-freebsd
    uname='freebsd freefall.freebsd.org 4.0-current freebsd 4.0-current #0: $Date: 1999/05/05 19:42:40 $'
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    usethreads=undef useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='cc', optimize='undef', gccversion=egcs-2.91.66 19990314 (egcs-1.1.2 release)
    cppflags=''
    ccflags =''
    stdchar='char', d_stdstdio=undef, usevfork=true
    intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8
    d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12
    alignbytes=4, usemymalloc=n, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='cc', ldflags ='-Wl,-E'
    libpth=/usr/lib
    libs=-lm -lc -lcrypt
    libc=/usr/lib/libc.so, so=so, useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl.so.3
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' '
    cccdlflags='-DPIC -fpic', lddlflags='-shared'


Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): 
  Built under freebsd
  Compiled at May 17 1999 02:25:58
  @INC:
    /usr/libdata/perl/5.00503/mach
    /usr/libdata/perl/5.00503
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i386-freebsd
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005
    .
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