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Re: leaking memory on shutdown
From: Evan Huus <eapache () gmail com>
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 20:22:27 -0400
On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 5:25 PM, Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws () gmail com> wrote:
[Taking discussion out of the bug since it's not specifically related to that bug.] On 06/18/13 18:20, bugzilla-daemon () wireshark org wrote:https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=8674#c8 However, those protocols currently use glib memory and therefore leak on shutdown,Isn't that a bit of an oxymoron? :-) (I know, I know, a while ago I spent a bunch of time cleaning up the preferences code to avoid leaks on shutdown--I think I commented something like "I do this just so I know where it is the stuff is being freed.") But, more seriously, Guy pointed out a (long?) while ago that a certain OS from a company he knows well has a way for applications to tell the OS something like "I have nothing to save before exiting" and when that flag is set and the user closes the app, the OS kills it with SIGKILL: it's faster and simpler that way. It's an interesting concept... It makes me think that we shouldn't really be spending time trying to fix leaks on shutdown.
The one benefit of fixing leaks on shutdown is that it makes it a million times easier to detect other (real) leaks because valgrind's output becomes useful. Right now any valgrind run you do with --leak-check=full is painfully difficult to analyze because of all the garbage (and dynamic hf arrays) that count as 'leaks'. Wmem's epan scope should help a lot in this regard once it ends up more widely used. Evan ___________________________________________________________________________ Sent via: Wireshark-dev mailing list <wireshark-dev () wireshark org> Archives: http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev Unsubscribe: https://wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-dev mailto:wireshark-dev-request () wireshark org?subject=unsubscribe
Current thread:
- Re: leaking memory on shutdown Jeff Morriss (Jun 27)
- Re: leaking memory on shutdown Evan Huus (Jun 27)
- Re: leaking memory on shutdown Jakub Zawadzki (Jun 27)
- Re: leaking memory on shutdown Evan Huus (Jun 28)
- Re: leaking memory on shutdown Jeff Morriss (Jun 28)
- Re: leaking memory on shutdown Jakub Zawadzki (Jun 27)
- Re: leaking memory on shutdown Evan Huus (Jun 27)