On 9/1/07, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I think William should decide soon if Bug Day 2 will be moved up a day
> to Thursday. it looks very likely to happen, so please let us know and
> update the Wiki page.

Nodoby was against it, so SAGE Bug Day 2 will be this coming
*Thursday*, from 10am until ...   I've updated the wiki.

> One more update remark on memleaks:
>
> William suspected a leak in
> "a=ModularSymbols(n,sign=1).decomposition()" related to linear
> algebra, specifically the following code
>
> for n in range(10,100): a=ModularSymbols(n,sign=1).decomposition();
> print n, get_memory_usage()
>
> leads to
>
> ==5107== LEAK SUMMARY:
> ==5107==    definitely lost: 14,051,359 bytes in 1,679,059 blocks.
> ==5107==    indirectly lost: 470,430 bytes in 12,425 blocks.
> ==5107==      possibly lost: 396,558 bytes in 1,064 blocks.
> ==5107==    still reachable: 168,316,769 bytes in 635,979 blocks.
> ==5107==         suppressed: 0 bytes in 0 blocks.
>
> Ouuch.
>
> I have analyzed the log and opened 8 new tickets in trac and tagged
> them for 2.8.4. Most seem pretty straight forward. I also retagged the
> other memleak tickets (expect the Cython problem I reported earlier
> tonight) for 2.8.4, which brings us to 18 open memleak tickets for
> 2.8.4. Let's see how we fare until the 2.8.4 release, but I am
> optimistic :)
>
> If you have any code that seems to be leaking memory please keep some
> simple examples (preferably running stuff in a loop) and retry with
> 2.8.4. If it still leaks just post to sage-devel and I will take a
> look as time permits.

Yes!  SAGE really really needs to be as memory-leak free as possible.

William

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