FYI,
as I have mentioned before I have tried the script with various
combinations of perl/malloc on Solaris 7. I have now tried the same script
on Linux with the following configurations:
Linux 2.2.13-4 gcc 2.91.66 Event.pm 0.85
perl 5.005_03 and perl 5.6.1
The growth happens in both versions of perl.
Brad
-----Original Message-----
From: Joshua N Pritikin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Saturday, May 11, 2002 12:17 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Is it Event.pm or me that's loosing its memory?
On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 07:53:11PM +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have confirmed that even a Event->timer will grow the
> stack on and on and on.
i can reproduce the problem on my machine with perl 5.6.1.
If you look at the XS implementation of _loop(), you will see that
i call ENTER/SAVETMPS FREETMPS/LEAVE for each dispatch. This should
take care of any temporary memory allocated in the callback ...
unless there is a reference counting problem.
You can try adding SvREFCNT_dec or sv_2mortal if you suspect that
an SV isn't getting free'd. We should probably check the behavior
with 5.6.0 and earlier -- it might be a bug in perl or some
subtle change in the API.
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