Re: Heap is growing without bound

[Neil Jerram]

>>>>> "Marc" == Marc Singer <address@hidden> writes:

    Marc> I'm using guile in a program intended to run continuously for years.
    Marc> I'm observing that the freestore is growing without bound.  What can I
    Marc> do to discover the cause for this?  

    Marc> I've determined that alloc_some_heap is being called every few hours
    Marc> to add about 300K of space to the freestore.  I'm not sure that the
    Marc> allocations in the freestore are growing.  My vmsize is getting larger
    Marc> as is the size of the working set.

Hi Marc,

For this kind of problem, you will almost certainly need either to
share your program with us, or - if you can't do that - find a way to
reproduce the problem with a simplified program that you can share.

Regards,
        Neil