Hi Daniel, It does not seem to be libxml2. I just isolated the loop to simply the libxml2 chores of xmlParseDoc'ing and xmlFreeDoc'ing and the memory looks much more steady and level. Barely any growth worth mentioning.
I also tried reinitializing both the xmlsec and libxml2 environments for each and every call ... Same growth, which is substantial at 40K per request. I did not compile anything myself and assume Igor's binairies for both libxml2 and xmlsec are good. http://www.zlatkovic.com/libxml.en.html Any other ideas ? Ed P.S. I just spent months porting the xmlsec app from Linux to Windows because I couldn't get decent "keys in hardware support (i.e. HSMs and tokens)" with OpenSSL on Linux. Believe it or not the Microsoft CAPI CSPs are very stable. I have tried 3 different ones without a hitch using xmlsec's mscrypto support. I also need Entrust support and Entrust also has an MS CAPI CSP. I do not know if the Linux version of the app leaks. -----Original Message----- From: Daniel Veillard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: February 19, 2006 5:56 PM To: Edward Shallow Cc: xmlsec@aleksey.com Subject: Re: [xmlsec] FW: Free/Destroy versus Memory Leak On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 05:35:51PM -0500, Edward Shallow wrote: > .. Re-sending ... 1st one bounced .. > I have isolated the memory growth to the xmlsec environment by > using successively narrower 'quick returns'. > When I comment out the single xmlsec.xmlSecDSigCtxVerify(dsigCtx, > sigNode) call, it grows at only 1/10th the rate ~4K (but still grows). > > Do you have any ideas or suggestions ? libxml2 itself has a memory wrapper http://xmlsoft.org/xmlmem.html#Debugging I would assume xmlsec also use xmlMalloc/xmlFree/xmlRealloc so the same debugging methods could be used. Also you're running on windows and I have heard just too many horror stories at this point due to mismatching between precompiled versions of the Windows libraries being used on a different environment and incompatible memory allocators that I would check that too. Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | Red Hat http://redhat.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | libxml GNOME XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/ _______________________________________________ xmlsec mailing list xmlsec@aleksey.com http://www.aleksey.com/mailman/listinfo/xmlsec