On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 Ara.T.Howard / noaa.gov wrote: > with those mods my results are largely the same: mutex shows no leak at all > and sync show a gradual trend up. with respect to sync, however, the trend > is from a small amount of initial memory and it may well be the case that it > eventually gets cleared so i am not asserting a leak in sync at this point - > i'm doing a long run to see which is the case. after a few hours i've finally seen the sync code cycle down after growing slowly for a looooong time, so it does not appear to have a leak either. except from output: --- iter: 449 threads loaded in 23.4420. memory_usage : pct_mem: 44.0%, vsz: 453944b, rss: 452456b n_threads_in_object_space : 421 threads killed. memory_usage : pct_mem: 22.3%, vsz: 230740b, rss: 229380b n_threads_in_object_space : 1 --- iter: 450 threads loaded in 23.2819. memory_usage : pct_mem: 44.0%, vsz: 453776b, rss: 452372b n_threads_in_object_space : 421 threads killed. memory_usage : pct_mem: 22.3%, vsz: 230740b, rss: 229380b n_threads_in_object_space : 1 --- iter: 451 threads loaded in 23.4827. memory_usage : pct_mem: 44.0%, vsz: 453776b, rss: 452416b n_threads_in_object_space : 421 threads killed. memory_usage : pct_mem: 8.0%, vsz: 83740b, rss: 82380b n_threads_in_object_space : 1 --- iter: 452 threads loaded in 23.3958. memory_usage : pct_mem: 44.1%, vsz: 454336b, rss: 452932b n_threads_in_object_space : 421 threads killed. memory_usage : pct_mem: 8.5%, vsz: 89336b, rss: 87976b n_threads_in_object_space : 1 --- iter: 453 threads loaded in 23.4515. memory_usage : pct_mem: 44.0%, vsz: 454300b, rss: 452856b n_threads_in_object_space : 421 threads killed. memory_usage : pct_mem: 9.4%, vsz: 98472b, rss: 97116b n_threads_in_object_space : 1 cheers. -a -- to foster inner awareness, introspection, and reasoning is more efficient than meditation and prayer. - h.h. the 14th dalai lama