On Wed, 6 Feb 2008, Daniel Oberski wrote: >>> >>> If run valgrind R then I get all sorts of warnings. I was wondering >>> whether I should worry about them or not. >> >> Don't worry about them. Those are benign issues with the system >> libraries.. insofar as you trust those libraries, which you should... in >> general. >> >> Jeff > > > Jeff, > > Thanks for your (reassuring) answer. I can see that you are right, > especially about the warnings at the beginning, all of which come from > ld-2.5.so. > > I think the memory leak warnings (which do come from libR.so) may have > something to do with the apparent fact that valgrind stops before the > main loop of R is over, so the memory is freed after that point. Or is > this not true?
Various blocks of memory are not freed until the program is shut down, but are in use up to that point so it is not a 'leak'. Most of the warnings are not from R itself but from e.g. readline or X11, and all are tiny. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
