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Re: apr pools & memory leaks (revisited, if briefly)

From: C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato_at_collab.net>
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 13:40:20 -0500

Justin Erenkrantz wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 10:34 AM, C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato_at_collab.net> wrote:
>> Mark Phippard tipped me off to this.
>>
>> Glad to hear that APR folk took the report seriously enough to investigate
>> the matter. Did anyone there happen to look at the fact that MaxMemFree
>> seems to not work at all, or that pools appear not to be automagically
>> defragmentable?
>
> The core issue that Ben identified is still there - but, in practice,
> most web servers tend to have very repetitive data flows and memory
> allocation patterns, so it's not something that anyone but SVN users
> (who have big commits and big memory peaks) would ever encounter.
>
> We could make the fragmentation a bit smarter - that is, not jump the
> power-of-2 boundary automatically. But, this now seems more
> appropriate for dev_at_apr and not dev_at_subversion. -- justin

Agreed.

-- 
C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato_at_collab.net>
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