From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16313 invoked by alias); 30 Oct 2006 11:41:54 -0000 Received: (qmail 16297 invoked by uid 22791); 30 Oct 2006 11:41:52 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mxout.hispeed.ch (HELO smtp.hispeed.ch) (62.2.95.247) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 11:41:47 +0000 Received: from indel.ch (84-73-11-232.dclient.hispeed.ch [84.73.11.232]) by smtp.hispeed.ch (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.6/taifun-1.0) with SMTP id k9UBfhkk024834 for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 12:41:44 +0100 Received: from FABI.indel.ch [192.168.1.91] by indel.ch [127.0.0.1] with SMTP (MDaemon.v2.7.SP5.R) for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 12:41:39 +0100 Message-Id: <5.2.0.9.1.20061030123115.0185cec0@NT_SERVER> X-Sender: cenedese@NT_SERVER (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.2.0.9 Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 11:41:00 -0000 To: gdb@sourceware.org From: Fabian Cenedese Subject: Memleaks? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-MDaemon-Deliver-To: gdb@sourceware.org X-Return-Path: cenedese@indel.ch X-Virus-Status: Clean X-DCC-spamcheck-01.tornado.cablecom.ch-Metrics: smtp-06.tornado.cablecom.ch 1377; Body=1 Fuz1=1 Fuz2=1 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-10/txt/msg00294.txt.bz2 Hi I was using gdb compiled with cygwin for Windows (XP). I noticed that the memory usage was continuously increasing. So I made a test: I just repeatedly loaded a symbol file without doing other stuff. Some times I'd just do "file" to clear the symbols. I looked with Process Explorer at the memory usage. It seems as this memory is never completely freed until gdb quits. But sometimes restarting gdb isn't an option so this memory increase is a bit disturbing. Is this a known problem? Am I seeing something else? Is there some kind of flush command (couldn't find) or should "file" release all allocated memory? http://img172.imageshack.us/img172/4447/gdbmemleakib1.gif gdb without a symbol file would use about 3.5MB but that fell off the scale. I admit that I used not a state-of-the-art gdb, but I don't think that this was changed recently. I'd be pleased if you can correct me. GNU gdb 6.2.50_2004-10-14-cvs Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "--host=i686-pc-cygwin --target=powerpc-eabi". Thanks bye Fabi