Hi all.

I use a library called GTS for computational geometry tasks, and it is
heavily based on GLib data structures. Specifically, in _many_ occasions it
returns a GSList* containing vertices, edges and so on, which you use and
then delete with g_slist_free( ). In my work, during a transient simulation
this kind of operation occurs at least tens of millions of times. Since
g_slist_free( ) does not actually deallocates the memory used by the list,
my program always ends consuming all available memory during the simulation
(8 GB, when it should use just 10% of that). I read in some mailing list
that setting the G_SLICE environment variable to always-malloc should work,
but it didn't change anything. How can I solve this problem?

PS: To setup G_SLICE I just defined it in my .bashrc file, like this:
G_SLICE=always-malloc; export G_SLICE;
Is it just it?

Thanks in advance

Márcio
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Márcio Ricardo Pivello
Universidade Federal de Uberlândia
Faculdade de Engenharia Mecânica
Laboratório de Mecânica dos Fluidos
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