On Tuesday 10 August 2004 08:37, Andrew Piskorski wrote: > So, can anyone suggest what sorts of errors could cause a big memory > leak which is NOT detected by Purify, and how I could check for them > in AOLserver? Or any other ways to figure out WHAT exactly is making > AOLserver steadily use more and more memory? >
You might want to distinguish between real leaks and pure memory consumption. Purify will report real leaks, that is, if you allocate some memory, assign this chunk to a pointer and rewrite this pointer afterwards, w/o freeing the allocated memory first. If you, however, just allocate things and never free them, it is not considered to be a memory leak. In Tcl, the most common error is bad handling of refcounts of Tcl objects. HTH, Zoran -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with the body of "SIGNOFF AOLSERVER" in the email message. You can leave the Subject: field of your email blank.
