Re: Heap is growing without bound

[Marc Singer]

On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 07:31:11PM +0100, Neil Jerram wrote:
> >>>>> "Marc" == Marc Singer <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>     Marc> I'm using guile in a program intended to run continuously for years.
>     Marc> I'm observing that the freestore is growing without bound.  What 
> can I
>     Marc> do to discover the cause for this?  
> 
>     Marc> I've determined that alloc_some_heap is being called every few hours
>     Marc> to add about 300K of space to the freestore.  I'm not sure that the
>     Marc> allocations in the freestore are growing.  My vmsize is getting 
> larger
>     Marc> as is the size of the working set.
> 
> Hi Marc,
> 
> For this kind of problem, you will almost certainly need either to
> share your program with us, or - if you can't do that - find a way to
> reproduce the problem with a simplified program that you can share.

Let me see what I can do.  It is probably possible for me to do this.
I'm still looking for proof that there is a problem.  This means that
I'm looking for some kind of incriminating detail.  At the moment, all
I can be sure of is that the virtual memory space for my application
is growing and that there are several freestore regions allocated.