[PD] memory leak in pd gui?

[John Harrison]

Here's an example patch that showed pd-gui using 80% of the memory after 
about 7 hours. The patch simply writes numbers to the Pd console. I'm 
now wondering if the problem is not a memory leak but that the console 
display buffer has no size limitation, it appears.

This is a x686 CPU, pd-vanilla.

-John

Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
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> Do you have an example patch that causes this?  Which CPU type?  
> pd-vanilla or pd-extended?
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> .hc
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> On Apr 28, 2007, at 3:53 PM, John Harrison wrote:
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>> I am running Pd 0.39-2 on ubuntu Dapper. It seems as though if I leave
>> Pd running for more than several days, the entire computer freezes or
>> becomes sluggish to the point of being unusable. I can hear the disk
>> thrashing like crazy.
>>
>> By setting up a cron job writing ps -auxw to a new time-stamped file in
>> a directory every 5 minutes, I can clearly see by looking at these files
>> that the problem is that Pd slowly but surely eats all the memory
>> resources of the machine. If I run the same patch with the nogui option,
>> the problem disappears. The thing is, I need to run this patch
>> indefinitely *and* I need the gui.
>>
>> Am I seeing a memory leak in the gui and is this a known problem?
>>
>> -John
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