On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 01:52 +0000, Aaron Stone wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 8, 2007, Paul J Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> 
> > Aaron Stone wrote:
> >> On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 22:49 +0200, Paul J Stevens wrote:
> >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >>>> This is good evidence that there may be a problem, but doesn't help 
> >>>> anybody
> >>>> to find it. If you can construct a few session transcripts that reliably
> >>>> cause memory leaks, we can start tracking it down. 
> >>> I'm thinking of fixing the code so it will work with libgc. I remember
> >>> that was a very instructive exercise that helped the 2.0 code
> >>> significantly. I'm not sure though glib and gmime are gc-safe.
> >> 
> >> So long as all memory allocation runs through Glib, we can use this:
> >> 
> >> http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/glib/glib-Memory-Allocation.html#GMemVTable
> > 
> > Isn't that used already? And then, how would that help in fixing any
> > possible leakage in third party libs we're using (ldap, sql, gmime)?
> 
> We have a lot of dm_malloc, and lots and lots of dm_free. Take a look in
> debug.h, where you'll find that they map onto the system's malloc and
> free. Worst of all, I think we're mixing g_new with dm_free in some
> places.

Huge commit to replace all dm_mallocs, dm_free's with g_malloc, g_new0.

Next step is to use g_mem_set_vtable to use a garbage collection engine
instead of the usual Glib slices allocation engine.

Aaron

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