Hey friends,
would you mind putting this in your nscp session and observe the virtual
memory usage (e.g. with the top utility) in a separate window?
time {set t [ns_thread begin "set a 1"]; ns_thread join $t} 10000
I start with about 45MB server (startup) and end with 600MB after the
test!
I believe this is not a memleak per-se (i.e. one on e could catch with
Purify or such...). I believe this is a side-effect of the AOL memory
allocator which has been accepted by the Tcl core in threaded builds.
Anyways, this is absolutely unacceptable for us. I must do some lobying
in the Tcl project to correct this somehow. This could explain some
memory-related problems in AS (and NS, consequently) reported by some
users. Alternbative could be to test the new Googled tmalloc (or however
it is called)...
Cheers
Zoran
