[PD] pd eating memory

[Lorenz Schori]

using MallocDebug i can see that InitializeTimeInfo called from  
AudioIOProc in portaudio/pa_mac_core/pa_mac_core.c allocates memory  
on each io cycle. this is then passed as a parameter (timeInfo) to a  
callback routine. i'm not familiar with portaudio and thus don't know  
who is expected to release the memory (pd or portaudio). i guess this  
would be the job of portaudio?

lorenz

Am 05.11.2005 um 14:31 schrieb Enrique Erne:

>
> On Nov 5, 2005, at 2:02 PM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
>> On Sat, 5 Nov 2005, Enrique Erne wrote:
>>> On Nov 5, 2005, at 12:55 PM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
>>>> On Sat, 5 Nov 2005, Enrique Erne wrote:
>>>>> now something I'm little bit more concerned: I've seen (activity
>>>>> monitor) that pd needs more and more memory. it starts about  
>>>>> 2.7 MB and
>>>>> without doing anything it just increases about 20kb/second .  
>>>>> after two
>>>>> hours it took about 150 MB memory and was still increasing.  
>>>>> this happens
>>>>> on osx 10.3.9 using miller's pd without any patches or libs is  
>>>>> this a
>>>>> bug ? do you have the same behavior ?
>>>> Which half of PureData is causing the problem? Is it "pd" all  
>>>> lowercase
>>>> (server) or "Pd" capitalized (client) ?
>>> it's the lowercase "pd" , which is going up and up. now it's over  
>>> 317 MB .
>>> wonder what happen when it reaches the limit.
>>
>> When it reaches the limit it surely just crashes. Depending on  
>> what your
>> limit is, it'll swap a lot before reaching the limit.
>>
>> I can't test it myself because I don't have a mac.
>>
>> I would suggest running Valgrind but it's a Linux-only program.  
>> What would
>> be a good equivalent to that on OSX? There's a neat program called  
>> "Shark"
>> on the Developer Tools CD, but I don't recall whether it can  
>> detect memory
>> leaks.
> I'm not familiar with that, actually I'm not familiar with c- 
> programming compiling etc.
>
>> Which version of Miller's pd exactly??
>
> It is Pd version 0.39-1 compiled for Macintosh.
> on OS X 10.3.9
>
>
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