Re: [Linuxptp-users] The ptp4l application seems to have a memory leak (increase of memory allocation)

[Mario M. <Mar...@we...>]

> Wow, what an embarrassing collection of bugs I produced.



No problem. I think you have made great job and the software architecture of 
ptp4l is very good and this make it easy to analyze problems.

> Many thanks for finding this bug and the patch. I just pushed a fix
>(just a bit different than your patch) today.

Thanks, it was pleasure to help.

>I added some compile time debugging that you might try out to verify
>the fix. I found that the slave mode uses 6 messages and the master
>mode 2, with one master and one slave and the default settings.

Ok. Thanks, these are very helpful additional features to analyze the 
message pool handling and memory consuming.

>> I think another good way to solve this behavior is to use a circular
>> message pool with a fix size.
>>
>> What do you think from this idea?

>A fixed size would be okay, but it might be hard to predict the number
>of messages needed for a busy bounday clock.

OK. It was only an idea after changing the code.

I wish you a nice weekend and good start in the next week.



Thanks,

Mario