Re: Memory leak with threads + guile 1.8.7 ?

[Andy Wingo]

Hi Cedric,

You posted a mail to the list some months ago:

On Wed 15 Sep 2010 15:47, Cedric Cellier <address@hidden> writes:

> I'm using guile in an C program that spawn a lot of short lived
> threads, each of which passing in guile mode (guile 1.8.7), and I'm
> facing a memory leak even when the threads does nothing (ie. the
> C function called by scm_with_guile consists only of a return NULL.
> After some time, if I call a gc-stats I have many many segments of
> 21Mb allocated, although gc-live-object-stats reports that almost
> nothing is alive (acording to expectations).
>
> I am under the impression that some of these segments, created by a
> now defunct thread, can not be reused by others.
>
> So I made a small program that continuously creates thread and run
> a NOP scm_with_guile in it, and then join it (so that thre thread local
> storage itself is not leaked).
>
> With the useless scm_with_guile call, this programm leaks memory
> very quickly. Comment out the scm_with_guile call and there is no more
> leak.
>
> What do you think ?

It's a bug, but with interesting implications in 1.9.  I have filed bug
#32436 about this.

Thanks for the test case,

Andy
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