Coroutines, and memory leaks

Kalle Svensson kalle at gnupung.net
Mon Mar 5 15:36:18 EST 2001


Sez David Given:
> 2. I have this massive memory leak. How can I find it?
> 
> The more I use the program, the more memory it uses. I've seen it use
> >100MB before I killed it. I guess that I've got cyclic memory structures
> in the message cache, so it's never freeing any of the mail I look at. Are
> there any suggestions for how I can find these and kill them?

Search on parnassus for Cyclops.  It's a cycle detecting script by Tim
Peters.

Peace,
  Kalle
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