On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 14:29:53 +0800 Brett Nash <n...@nash.id.au> said:

> On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 11:35:26 +0800
> Brian Wang <brian.wang.0...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hello all,
> > 
> > I'm using Elementary with recent svn.   I got lots of valgrind memory
> > check warning at program exit such as:
> > 
> > ==6296== 5 bytes in 1 blocks are possibly lost in loss record 10 of
> > 1,788 ==6296==    at 0x4024C1C: malloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:195)
> > ==6296==    by 0x429FC8F: strdup (strdup.c:43)
> > ==6296==    by 0x406A19E: evas_key_modifier_add (evas_key.c:172)
> > ==6296==    by 0x47355EC: ecore_event_window_register
> > (ecore_input_evas.c:88) ==6296==    by 0x4180B73:
> > ecore_evas_software_x11_new (ecore_evas_x.c:2603) ==6296==    by
> > 0x41CA91A: elm_win_add (elm_win.c:361) ==6296==    by 0x80500B3:
> > win_standard_populate (app.c:2036) ==6296==    by 0x8050570:
> > win_mode_player_populate_delay (app.c:2148) ==6296==    by 0x8050646:
> > win_mode_switch (app.c:2193) ==6296==    by 0x805074E:
> > startup_win_init (app.c:2241) ==6296==    by 0x80508AC: elm_main
> > (app.c:2283) ==6296==    by 0x80508EA: main (app.c:2292)
> > 
> > 
> > ==6296== 8 bytes in 1 blocks are possibly lost in loss record 59 of
> > 1,788 ==6296==    at 0x4023F5B: calloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:418)
> > ==6296==    by 0x4084B38: evas_object_rectangle_new
> > (evas_object_rectangle.c:134)
> > ==6296==    by 0x4084A13: evas_object_rectangle_init
> > (evas_object_rectangle.c:109)
> > ==6296==    by 0x40849E1: evas_object_rectangle_add
> > (evas_object_rectangle.c:95) ==6296==    by 0x41EB134: elm_pager_add
> > (elm_pager.c:222) ==6296==    by 0x804E4E1: control_pager_add
> > (app.c:1264) ==6296==    by 0x80505A8: win_mode_player_populate_delay
> > (app.c:2156) ==6296==    by 0x8050646: win_mode_switch (app.c:2193)
> > ==6296==    by 0x805074E: startup_win_init (app.c:2241)
> > ==6296==    by 0x80508AC: elm_main (app.c:2283)
> > ==6296==    by 0x80508EA: main (app.c:2292)
> > ==6296==
> > ==6296== 8 bytes in 1 blocks are possibly lost in loss record 60 of
> > 1,788 ==6296==    at 0x4023F5B: calloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:418)
> > ==6296==    by 0x4084B38: evas_object_rectangle_new
> > (evas_object_rectangle.c:134)
> > ==6296==    by 0x4084A13: evas_object_rectangle_init
> > (evas_object_rectangle.c:109)
> > ==6296==    by 0x40849E1: evas_object_rectangle_add
> > (evas_object_rectangle.c:95) ==6296==    by 0x41EB171: elm_pager_add
> > (elm_pager.c:226) ==6296==    by 0x804E4E1: control_pager_add
> > (app.c:1264) ==6296==    by 0x80505A8: win_mode_player_populate_delay
> > (app.c:2156) ==6296==    by 0x8050646: win_mode_switch (app.c:2193)
> > ==6296==    by 0x805074E: startup_win_init (app.c:2241)
> > ==6296==    by 0x80508AC: elm_main (app.c:2283)
> > ==6296==    by 0x80508EA: main (app.c:2292)
> > ==6296==
> > ==6296== 8 bytes in 1 blocks are possibly lost in loss record 61 of
> > 1,788 ==6296==    at 0x4023F5B: calloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:418)
> > ==6296==    by 0x4084B38: evas_object_rectangle_new
> > (evas_object_rectangle.c:134)
> > ==6296==    by 0x4084A13: evas_object_rectangle_init
> > (evas_object_rectangle.c:109)
> > ==6296==    by 0x40849E1: evas_object_rectangle_add
> > (evas_object_rectangle.c:95) ==6296==    by 0x43E532E: _edje_add
> > (edje_main.c:211) ==6296==    by 0x43E86F8: _edje_smart_add
> > (edje_smart.c:65) ==6296==    by 0x4085D83: evas_object_smart_add
> > (evas_object_smart.c:346) ==6296==    by 0x43E86D4: edje_object_add
> > (edje_smart.c:56) ==6296==    by 0x41D1A75: elm_button_add
> > (elm_button.c:222) ==6296==    by 0x804C6B6: button_add (app.c:442)
> > ==6296==    by 0x804E2FD: elapsed_bar_add (app.c:1228)
> > ==6296==    by 0x804E535: control_pager_add (app.c:1270)
> > 
> > There are lots of more.  The summary is quite scary:
> > ==6671== LEAK SUMMARY:
> > ==6671==    definitely lost: 1,016 bytes in 12 blocks
> > ==6671==    indirectly lost: 4,340 bytes in 217 blocks
> > ==6671==      possibly lost: 2,915,620 bytes in 5,119 blocks
> > ==6671==    still reachable: 584,490 bytes in 6,969 blocks
> > ==6671==         suppressed: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
> > 
> > I'm not sure how possible "possibly lost" means.  Is it safe to
> > ignore?  I believe those warnings were not there.  But my memory might
> > be at fault.
> 
> Possibly lost means it wasn't freed at exit generally.
> 
> Ignore them.  The OS is a hell of a lot better (and faster) at cleaning
> such things up[1].
> 
>       Regards,
>       nash
> 
> [1] Deleting an entire address space is great cleanup method[2] ;-)
> [2] And doesn't need you to thrash your TLB and swap following free
> memory lists too.

you said it for me. the onyl things to really worry about are the definitely
losts. indirectly lost - cant remember. need to check. as such the definitely
losts in efl are quite small and limited to 1-offs. if they were recurring -
they'd be fixed.

-- 
------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" --------------
The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler)    ras...@rasterman.com


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