I'm not seeing this problem, but then I don't think I'm setup to generate stderr spam on malloc/free errors (via the likes of "MALLOC_CHECK_=1" in the environment or somesuch).
Greg Stein wrote: > I think the memory usage might actually be our test harness attempting > to read all of the (stderr) output into memory. Thousands and > thousands of lines that read: > > svn(56985,0xa0634720) malloc: *** error for object 0x817a00: double free > *** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug > > So maybe svn isn't consuming memory, but is simply generating a > hojillion of these error lines. I forced an abort/coredump, and found > this stack: > > #0 0x952e329a in write$NOCANCEL$UNIX2003 () > #1 0x9538f3ce in malloc_destroy_zone () > #2 0x9538e8e3 in malloc_zone_print_ptr_info () > #3 0x9538e943 in malloc_printf () > #4 0x9538941a in scandir$INODE64 () > #5 0x952b3523 in malloc_zone_free () > #6 0x952b338d in free () > #7 0x004d230c in apr_allocator_destroy (allocator=0x502010) at > memory/unix/apr_pools.c:134 > #8 0x000101b5 in main (argc=11, argv=0xbffff0ac) at > subversion/svn/main.c:2288 > > Any ideas? > > Cheers, > -g > > On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 20:07, Greg Stein <gst...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I'm running into a problem with merge test 4. Some kind of memory >> leak, or other memory double-free or somesuch. >> >> During the 'svn switch', it just seems to head off into la-la land. >> Consumes a TON of memory before I kill it off. >> >> Has anybody seen this? Ring any bells? >> >> Thx, >> -g >> -- C. Michael Pilato <cmpil...@collab.net> CollabNet <> www.collab.net <> Distributed Development On Demand
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