Hi Alex: These leaks in tar aren't enough to consume 1GB of memory. When applications leak memory, that memory will be returned to the system once the application exits.
What are you using to measure the amount of memory consumed by your system? Can you explain why you think it is leaking memory? Thanks, -j On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 02:43:24AM -0700, Alex wrote: > Hi, I run backup at night, the most important directories archived using tar. > Since then disappears system's memory (about 1Gb). I tested this process > with memleak.d from http://blogs.sun.com/sanjeevb and find many leaks > for tar: > # findleaks.pl /tmp/tarlog | more > > Ptr=0x445e8 Size=48 > > libc.so.1`malloc+0x64 > > libc.so.1`calloc+0x58 > > tar`0x1ad68 > > tar`0x1ae44 > > tar`0x1b16c > > tar`0x145c4 > > tar`0x136c0 > > tar`main+0xb18 > > tar`_start+0x108 > > > > --------- > > Ptr=0x44578 Size=10240 > > libc.so.1`malloc+0x64 > > libc.so.1`calloc+0x58 > > tar`0x1502c > > tar`0x1495c > > tar`0x1495c > > tar`0x1495c > > tar`0x1495c > > tar`0x136c0 > > tar`main+0xb18 > > tar`_start+0x108 > > and more... > And for example on command `cp /export/home/* /opt/tmp` I detected memory > leaks to?. > Who still blame for the memory loss - tar or the system? > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > perf-discuss mailing list > perf-discuss@opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ perf-discuss mailing list perf-discuss@opensolaris.org
