RE: memory leak in excas?

["Chris Timossi" <catimossi@lbl.gov>]

Jeff,

Thanks for the help. I found the leak. My bad :-)

Chris

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Hill [mailto:johill@lanl.gov]
> Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 3:19 PM
> To: 'Chris Timossi'; tech-talk@aps.anl.gov
> Subject: RE: memory leak in excas?
>
>
>
> Chris,
>
> The excas that is supplied with R3.14.2 was leak tested in purify
> prior to its
> release. I just finished running the regression tests against it
> twice and the
> memory consumption appears to follow a high water mark behavior and not a
> steadily increasing ramp as is typically the case with memory leaks.
>
> But that is only how the software was tested. Your situation may
> be different.
> Perhaps I will be able to reproduce your problem if I have more
> details about
> your situation:
>
> o OS version?
> o I assume that this is all linked with EPICS R3.14 libraries?
> o Perhaps there is something special about how the clients use
> this server?
> o If the changes are small perhaps some diffs between the stock
> excas and your
> version will help?
>
> PS:
> Be careful that GDDs are properly unreferenced when you are done
> using them.
>
> Jeff
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Chris Timossi [mailto:catimossi@lbl.gov]
> > Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 12:35 PM
> > To: tech-talk@aps.anl.gov
> > Subject: memory leak in excas?
> >
> >
> > Has anyone experienced a memory leak in the server tool example 'excas'?
> >
> > I'm trying to run down a leak in my application that's based on that
> > example. The leak seems to be in exScalar.cc in the scan routine.
> >
> > I'm running on solaris and R3.14.2. I'm restarting the application once
> > a
> > day as a 'workaround'.
> >
> > Chris Timossi
>
>