> I also have a memory leak in my 3.14.7, vxworks (T2.2.1), which
> occurs when I do large (~16 kB) CA transfers. Haven't looked
> too hard, yet.
The R3.14 IOC software was checked with purify (on windows) for memory leaks
at various times during its initial release, and it was given a clean bill
of health (by purify).
What you might be seeing is CA's retaining various blocks on its free lists
for future reuse.
Jeff
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
> On Behalf Of Paul Sichta
> Sent: Friday, March 14, 2008 10:47 AM
> To: Schoeneburg, Bernd
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Memory Problem related to CA?
>
> I also have a memory leak in my 3.14.7, vxworks (T2.2.1), which
> occurs when I do large (~16 kB) CA transfers. Haven't looked
> too hard, yet.
>
> -ps
>
>
> Schoeneburg, Bernd wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > on some IOCs we see that the free memory becomes less and less.
> > Especially when we restart our channel archiver, the free memory in the
> > IOCs becomes much less.
> > My possible explanation for this is that channel access has not a free
> > memory block of the desired (big) size in its private pool, so that
> > additional memory from the system pool is allocated - and never free'd.
> > Is this possible? Can the channel access pool become fragmented? If YES:
> > Is there a solution for this in later versions? Or a patch?
> >
> > We are using Epics 3.13.10 with vxWorks 5.3.1 on mvme162-532A (16 MB)
> >
> > Thank you
> >
> > Bernd
> >
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