[collectd] Possible memory leak in python plugin?

[James김민석]

hello,

it's been couple of weeks since I patched, and there is no memory leak
anymore.^^

I've used several tools to detect problems,
example, valgrind http://valgrind.org/, memwatch(
http://www.linkdata.se/sourcecode/memwatch/)
for python test, i used guppy and it told me there was no leak.
but couldn't find ways to to detect. because valgrind couldn't track child
thread, memwatch doesn't understand free statements sometimes.

It was my best way that just checking the candidate source codes line by
line.
specially embeded python and  python c-extension, there might be some
missing in reference counting of object in c code.
please checkout following nice articles that explains the problem.

http://edcjones.tripod.com/refcount.html

hope you have lucky. ;)



2012/4/12 Richard Marshall <richard.marshall at tagman.com>

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> In this thread it looks like you may have found a memory leak problem in
> collectd python, but I’m not sure. I am seeing a memory leak to in a very
> similar situation (though using the following plugin:
> https://github.com/mleinart/collectd-haproxy . I’m using the Ubuntu
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