Re: [bug-gawk] Memory leak

[Andrew J. Schorr]

On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 08:25:19AM -0600, address@hidden wrote:
> Since you're on Linux you should have valgrind available. It would be best
> if you run valgrind on gawk in your setup.
> 
> It really helps to compile gawk without optimization to get accurate
> line number info:
> 
>       wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gawk/gawk-4.1.4.tar.gz
>       tar -xpzvf gawk-4.1.4.tar.gz
>       cd gawk-4.1.4
>       ./configure
>       # Edit Makfile and remove -O2 from the compilation flags
>       make
> 
> Using the gawk you compiled, something like:
> 
>       # from your pipeline
>       zcat sdelse1.pip.gz.5t | tail -n +2 | 
>               valgrind --leak-check=ful gawk -F '|' -f test.awk 2> REPORT |
>                       gzip > out.sdelse1.pip.gz.5t
> 
> Then send us the REPORT file. This should tell us if there are real
> memory leaks or not, and will help keep Andy and me from trashing trying to
> reproduce the problem.

FYI, I ran this on the small 344-record dataset like so:

tail -n +2 sample4gnu.pip | valgrind --leak-check=full --log-file=valgrind.log 
gawk -f test.awk

I then ran it on the first 200 records like so:

tail -n +2 sample4gnu.pip | head -200 | valgrind --leak-check=full 
--log-file=valgrind.log.200 gawk -f test.awk

The logfiles are attached.

Regards,
Andy

valgrind.log
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valgrind.log.200
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