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HayArms

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A great memleak problem ...
« on: October 27, 2005, 07:45:21 PM »
Hi all, I'm using aMule CVS (one of the lastest snapshots) and I have a problem .... a big problem.

I use debian and I haven't touched the ./configure  option with the exclusion of --prefix and --enable-kad-compile. The C++ Compilator used is gcc 4.0 .

aMule now is up from 2 days and 19 hours.

Here you can see the problem :

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Output from "top" :
 PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
 3801 melchior  20   0  558m 417m 8240 D 11.3 41.3 267:09.76 amule

As you can see aMule uses 558 MegaBytes of Memory!!

What's up with aMule?

Thanks
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Re: A great memleak problem ...
« Reply #1 on: October 27, 2005, 07:51:07 PM »
what wxGTK version?
compiled with gtk1.2 or gtk2 support?
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Re: A great memleak problem ...
« Reply #2 on: October 27, 2005, 08:26:09 PM »
apt-get says :

Version: 2.6.1.2

I have maintained the ./configure default library. I think is GTK2 , but I'm not completely sure (I use KDE and GTK1 and GTK2 look quite similar)
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Re: A great memleak problem ...
« Reply #3 on: October 27, 2005, 09:03:49 PM »
Debians wxgtk is compiled with GTK2 which results in exactly the memleaks you are experiencing up until version 2.6.1. This has been fixed in wxgtk 2.6.2.
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Re: A great memleak problem ...
« Reply #4 on: October 27, 2005, 09:20:17 PM »
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Debians wxgtk is compiled with GTK2 which results in exactly the memleaks you are experiencing up until version 2.6.1. This has been fixed in wxgtk 2.6.2.

Do you think I should package libgtk2.6 myself with an updated 2.6.2 version?
« Last Edit: October 27, 2005, 09:20:56 PM by HayArms »
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Re: A great memleak problem ...
« Reply #5 on: October 27, 2005, 10:40:39 PM »
I could say "yes" and the debian 2.6.2 packages will come out the next day. I could say "no" and they won't come for months. I don't know, it's your call whether you think there's need for such a package. But if you don't have any experience in Debian packaging be advised that this isn't something you get done in a matter of some hours, it's more likely to take you some days. And it might very well all be for the drain ;)
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Re: A great memleak problem ...
« Reply #6 on: October 28, 2005, 12:12:52 PM »
HayArms,

thedude0001 is right, instead of creating a debian package, compile wx yourself and leave it in a directory in your home.

Open the wx tarball in a directory and:

$ ./configure --enable-debug --disable-optimise --enable-debug_flag --enable-debug_info --enable-debug_gdb --with-opengl --enable-gtk2 --enable-unicode --enable-largefile --prefix=/home/user/wxWidgets-cvsu && make && make install

Don't forget to run aMule like this:
$ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/user/wxWidgets-cvsu/lib /path/to/amule &

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Re: A great memleak problem ...
« Reply #7 on: October 28, 2005, 01:05:41 PM »
Thanks for the advice, but I think I've succeded in creating a debian package of wxgtk 2.6.2 (I'm compiling it right now). If all goes well I'll make you know if the problem will come back again or not. If it doesn't work ... well, I think that I will follow your advice  :P
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