I have been running WSPR for about 18 hours on Mac OSX 10.9 until it crashed with:
Error in soundin, Error -9981, Error message: Input overflowed. Before it crashed, top reported: PID COMMAND %CPU TIME #TH #WQ #PORT #MREG MEM RPRVT PURG CMPR VPRVT VSIZE PGRP PPID STATE UID 405 Python 1.4 29:58.31 8 1 766 3259 506M 504M 0B 48K 650M 3084M 405 368 sleeping 501 Ports (Message queues) 766 Mreg: (Memory regions) 3259 Mem: 511 MB grep of vmmap: 1228 MALLOC 7 freed The summary from vmmap: ==== Summary for process 405 ReadOnly portion of Libraries: Total=177.1M resident=57.2M(32%) swapped_out_or_unallocated=119.8M(68%) Writable regions: Total=707.6M written=378.7M(54%) resident=504.8M(71%) swapped_out=0K(0%) unallocated=202.9M(29%) REGION TYPE VIRTUAL =========== ======= ATS (font support) 31.9M ATS (font support) (reserved) 4K reserved VM address space (unallocated) CG backing stores 1832K CG image 4K CG raster data 24K CG shared images 180K Dispatch continuations 4096K Kernel Alloc Once 8K MALLOC 511.6M see MALLOC ZONE table below MALLOC (admin) 44K MALLOC freed, no zone 472K MALLOC_LARGE 840K MALLOC_LARGE (reserved) 384K reserved VM address space (unallocated) Memory Tag 242 12K Memory Tag 249 156K STACK GUARD 28K Stack 7012K VM_ALLOCATE 16.4M VM_ALLOCATE (freed) 8K __DATA 137.6M __IMAGE 528K __LINKEDIT 69.8M __TEXT 107.2M __UNICODE 544K __UNIXSTACK 16.0M mapped file 54.0M shared memory 4K =========== ======= TOTAL 960.4M TOTAL, minus reserved VM space 960.0M VIRTUAL ALLOCATION BYTES MALLOC ZONE SIZE COUNT ALLOCATED % FULL =========== ======= ========= ========= ====== DefaultMallocZone_0x100302000 511.3M 2232447 495.6M 96% QuartzCore_0x100d75c00 16K 2 224 1% x-alloc_0x100cfe400 12K 2 224 1% GFXMallocZone_0x1003f5000 0K 0 0K =========== ======= ========= ========= ====== TOTAL 511.3M 2232451 495.6M 96% Conclusion: if seems WSPR is leaking but not as extensively as WSJT. I have a gzipped file of vmmap but at 27k it might be too big to be accepted by the list server. Still investigating... --- John G4KLA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ New Year. New Location. New Benefits. New Data Center in Ashburn, VA. GigeNET is offering a free month of service with a new server in Ashburn. Choose from 2 high performing configs, both with 100TB of bandwidth. Higher redundancy.Lower latency.Increased capacity.Completely compliant. http://p.sf.net/sfu/gigenet _______________________________________________ wsjt-devel mailing list wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel