[BRLTTY] brltty 3.7.2 seems to leak memory

Samuel Thibault samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org
Thu Mar 23 12:40:32 EST 2006


Hi,

Samuel Thibault, le Thu 23 Mar 2006 18:10:03 +0100, a écrit :
> Mario Lang, le Tue 21 Mar 2006 00:09:45 +0100, a écrit :
> > FYI, I just killed a brltty instance running for about two or more weeks
> > on a machine where it ate about 420MB ram.  I guess the TSI driver
> > is leaking memory somewhere.  No futher data available, will keep my
> > eyes open.
> 
> Are you letting brltty autodetect devices? The debian-installed brltty
> (which defaults to autodetection) leaks on my machine too. I disabled
> dlclose() in Programs/sys_shlib_dlfcn.h for getting precise leak
> information from valgrind, see next episode...

Mmm, disabling dlclose() makes the leak go away... But trying all
different drivers one by one made me find that the PapenMeier seems to
leak memory, probably while parsing the configuration file, I don't know
where precisely.

Regards,
Samuel


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