[mgp-users 01373] Re: Memory leak...

[Jonathan Nicholson <jjn@sanger.ac.uk>]

After a bit more investigation the leak is occuring when the file is
re-read.

This does look to be a bit of an after thought!

My C isn't up to debugging this much further, any help appreciated!

Thanks,

Jonathan


On Sun, 28 Nov 2004, Jonathan Nicholson wrote:

> Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 10:55:52 +0000 (GMT)
> From: Jonathan Nicholson <jjn@sanger.ac.uk>
> To: mgp-users@mew.org
> Subject: [mgp-users 01371] Memory leak...
>
> There's rather a large memory leak in magic point when it re-reads a file
> from disk.
>
> I'm running magic point in a long running display which needs to re-read
> the file frequently (every minute). This has caused stability problems as
> the machine rapidly runs out of memory and crashes!
>
> I'm going to take a look at the code to see if I can fix it, but if anyone
> has a fix for this problem I'd be grateful!
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Jonathan
>
>
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