On Mon, 25 Aug 2003, [iso-8859-1] Mĺns Rullgĺrd wrote:
>
> Is there a memory leak in alsa-lib? When playing music with a player
> I'm writing (TCVP, http://tcvp.sf.net), the memory usage reported by
> top grows for each file I play, but only if I use ALSA for sound
> playback. If I use OSS the memory usage varies around 1.5 MB, but if
> I use ALSA, it starts at 1.9 MB (OK, libasound takes some space) and
> grows by 30-40 kB for each played file. Running the whole thing under
> valgrind gives me this, which is all alsa-related. When using OSS,
> valgrind reports no leaks.
I tested aplay with valgrind and I cannot find any leak (except a few
allocations probably from glibc). Note that you have to use
snd_config_update_free_global() after end of the session to free
the configuration cache in alsa-lib. This is described in
the alsa-lib/MEMORY-LEAK file.
Jaroslav
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Linux Kernel Sound Maintainer
ALSA Project, SuSE Labs
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