Re: [Chicken-users] confusion tracking down memory leak

[Andreas Rottmann]

Thomas Bushnell BSG <address@hidden> writes:

> I have a memory leak in a long-running program; I can easily provoke it.
> (It's quite complex; too complex to post here.)
>
> The program involves lots of FFI interfaces to Linux syscalls, and other
> stuff.
>
> The memory leak is *not* in Scheme; this is verified by the fact that
> (memory-statistics) while it's running shows bounded memory consumption.
>
> Yet the heap usage is growing without limit.  There's bad malloc going
> on somewhere.  
>
> Are there any convenient tools to try and figure out malloc usage in
> Chicken Scheme?
>
Dunno specifically about Chicken Scheme (and "convinient" ;-), but given
the fact that your leak is in C code, you might be able to make sense
from Valgrind[0] output -- for C/C++ this works great, usually.

[0] http://valgrind.org/

Regards, Rotty
-- 
Andreas Rottmann -- <http://rotty.yi.org/>