Hi Cedric, You posted a mail to the list some months ago:
On Wed 15 Sep 2010 15:47, Cedric Cellier <ri...@happyleptic.org> writes: > I'm using guile in an C program that spawn a lot of short lived > threads, each of which passing in guile mode (guile 1.8.7), and I'm > facing a memory leak even when the threads does nothing (ie. the > C function called by scm_with_guile consists only of a return NULL. > After some time, if I call a gc-stats I have many many segments of > 21Mb allocated, although gc-live-object-stats reports that almost > nothing is alive (acording to expectations). > > I am under the impression that some of these segments, created by a > now defunct thread, can not be reused by others. > > So I made a small program that continuously creates thread and run > a NOP scm_with_guile in it, and then join it (so that thre thread local > storage itself is not leaked). > > With the useless scm_with_guile call, this programm leaks memory > very quickly. Comment out the scm_with_guile call and there is no more > leak. > > What do you think ? It's a bug, but with interesting implications in 1.9. I have filed bug #32436 about this. Thanks for the test case, Andy -- http://wingolog.org/
