[foo-devel] Foo running

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

Dear Sirs,

A short first report on my tests with Foo.

I have had the fellow synthesizing like a foo for hours. I have done 
mostly one type of test, because it is a heavy one and I had at hand 
lots of recent examples (actually from the piece I did in June) : 
processes of many, many synthesis with small contexts.

Next step should bemore tests with large contexts too.

Still I want to inform you of two items.

First is that the first time I ran it with one of these tests, I soon 
got a Segmentation Fault. After that first time, I have had it running 
for hours (restarted three times the process), and it was always cool. 
Strange, though.

Second is to comment on the memory. I have a Foo with a stack of 65536.
When I start Foo, top shows me Virtual Memory : 136Mb, Res : 12Mb &  
Shared : 2744.

After three hours of running (as I said, hundreds of small synthesis) I 
had Virtual: 1132Mb, Res : 693Mb & Shared : 2748.

The gc was all the time ::  2403K of 65536K.

So there is a constant increase in memory. Does this mean there is 
still a memory leak? At the end of the synthesis I kill the context, 
should I do something else?

These tests were done with the Linux machine.

One more thing. When I got the first Segmentation Fault, I tried to 
check with the old Foo, the one I had used in May/June with the hacks 
that Martin had done for me. It was impossible, it was doing a 
Segmentation Fault, the moment I would start the synthesis. Of course I 
have updated (or almost) the system in the meantime. Is this normal?

All the best,

Ramon