[Mono-dev] Leaky JIT while running MonoDevelop

[Zoltan Varga]

Hi,

  Try running the app with G_SLICE=always-malloc. That would force
glib to allocate all
memory using malloc, helping valgrind to produce more meaningful leak reports.

              Zoltan

On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 1:22 AM, Casey Marshall
<casey.s.marshall at gmail.com> wrote:
> Rodrigo Kumpera wrote:
>> Hi Casey,
>>
>> I have an idea on what might be the cause of the leak, and it only
>> happens under amd64 and aot.
>>
>> Under amd64 mono_analyze_liveness2  is called from mono_analyze_liveness
>> if aot is enabled.
>> This will set MonoMethodVar::interval for a bunch of vars.
>>
>> In mono_linear_scan, if ->internal is set it calls mono_linear_scan2 and
>> return. Notice that
>> mono_linear_scan release the supplied lists, "vars" and "regs", while
>> mono_linear_scan2 doesn't.
>>
>
> I'm working from the mono-2-0 branch, and that doesn't have a
> mono_linear_scan2 function.
>
>> I don't have an amd64 setup here, but could you test if the following
>> change fix your issue:
>>
>> Index: mono/mini/linear-scan.c
>> ===================================================================
>> --- mono/mini/linear-scan.c    (revision 110530)
>> +++ mono/mini/linear-scan.c    (working copy)
>> @@ -509,4 +510,6 @@
>>
>>      g_list_free (active);
>>      g_list_free (inactive);
>> +    g_list_free (vars);
>> +    g_list_free (regs);
>>  }
>>
>>
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