[foo-devel] more info concerning hack

[Ramon Gonzalez-A. <ar...@ma...>]

Dear Martin,

Contrary to my first impression that the problem was bypassed with your 
hack, actually either it's another problem of memory leakage, or it's 
the same one but at really a different order of maginitude.

Since yesterday night I'm running even bulkier processes. Of the same 
type, grosso modo, but the number of cycles is around 50000/100000.

What happens is that the computer starts to swap like crazy after some 
time, but until now my processes have managed to end. When it's done, 
and I stop foo, some memory is released, but, of course, something of 
the swap keeps. This means that even stopping foo after every 
process-run, I need to restart the computer every two/three runs. So it 
is somewhat uncomfortable.

Worrying not about comfort, which is anyway a bad habit, I just wnated 
to inform you in case this gives more light or more darkness in your 
hypothesis.

Just as an addendum for your info, this is not the first time I run 
such type of processes. Say, in the "old" Linux version I was using for 
A Media Luna, this kind of tasks were common and I never had any 
problems.


Best,

Ramon

P.S. dear Gerhard, could you, whenever a phetasec free, peep a comma 
into the problem?