[Commotion-dev] [serval-project-dev] Serval memory leaks

[Dan Staples]

It has one key :)

On Thu 31 Oct 2013 06:17:28 PM EDT, Jeremy Lakeman wrote:
> 500k is a lot, how large is your keyring?
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 8:34 AM, Dan Staples
> <danstaples at opentechinstitute.org
> <mailto:danstaples at opentechinstitute.org>> wrote:
>
>     At the international summit for community wireless networks last
>     month,
>     we noticed on the Commotion network we set up that the Serval daemon,
>     and one of our own programs which uses the Serval library, were
>     using up
>     an awful lot of memory and leading to OOM conditions in which the
>     routers rebooted periodically.
>
>     I noticed today, as I've been debugging our code that uses the Serval
>     library, that Valgrind reports quite a bit of leaked memory from a
>     single call to both keyring_open and keyring_enter_pin. 527,056 bytes
>     lost memory to be exact, stemming from malloc and calloc calls in
>     those
>     functions. Perhaps this is our problem?
>
>     This was seen with both 0.90 and 0.91. I can send Valgrind output if
>     that would be helpful.
>
>     Dan
>
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