[mapserver-dev] 5.2.0 memory leaks?

Stephen Woodbridge woodbri at swoodbridge.com
Sun Jul 13 01:30:55 EDT 2008


FYI, I just confirmed I get the same leaks on RC1 also.

-sw

Stephen Woodbridge wrote:
> Steve L,
> 
> I have been playing around with a test program to generate some images. 
> It was some mapscript that I wanted to see if I could get working as a C 
> program calling the mapserver library calls.
> 
> This run was based on mapserver-5.2.0-beta2 and it looks like we have 
> some memory leaks in the mapserver code. It is also possible that I 
> mis-used the library, but these seem to be pretty deep in mapserver and 
> I'm not trying to do anything fancy.
> 
> I'll check the same run against RC1, but I guess my generic question is 
> how much check has been done with valgrind. This run only generates two 
> images, but if I wanted to generate lots more this could be serious. In 
> fact, I think I've seen php/mapscript precache2.php run into a leak 
> where the process kept growing and finally died and had to be restarted.
> 
> -Steve
> 
> 
> ==5821== ERROR SUMMARY: 0 errors from 0 contexts (suppressed: 3 from 1)
> ==5821== malloc/free: in use at exit: 7,724 bytes in 29 blocks.
> ==5821== malloc/free: 337,243 allocs, 337,214 frees, 121,668,226 bytes 
> allocated.
> ==5821== For counts of detected errors, rerun with: -v
> ==5821== searching for pointers to 29 not-freed blocks.
> ==5821== checked 15,450,752 bytes.
> ==5821==
> ==5821== 24 bytes in 3 blocks are definitely lost in loss record 5 of 15
> ==5821==    at 0x4A18DA3: malloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:149)
> ==5821==    by 0x4276A1: msLayerWhichItems (maplayer.c:440)
> ==5821==    by 0x42A20D: msDrawVectorLayer (mapdraw.c:841)
> ==5821==    by 0x429E44: msDrawLayer (mapdraw.c:738)
> ==5821==    by 0x429A73: msDrawMap (mapdraw.c:441)
> ==5821==    by 0x40E67E: main (genimages.c:1112)
> ==5821==
> ==5821==
> ==5821== 24 bytes in 4 blocks are definitely lost in loss record 6 of 15
> ==5821==    at 0x4A18DA3: malloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:149)
> ==5821==    by 0x4B35D78: gdMalloc (in /usr/lib/libgd.so.2.0.33)
> ==5821==    by 0x4B33830: (within /usr/lib/libgd.so.2.0.33)
> ==5821==    by 0x4B336DB: gdImageCreatePaletteFromTrueColor (in 
> /usr/lib/libgd.so.2.0.33)
> ==5821==    by 0x43ACED: msImageCreateWithPaletteGD (mapgd.c:3441)
> ==5821==    by 0x43B022: msSaveImageGDCtx (mapgd.c:3576)
> ==5821==    by 0x43AE2F: msSaveImageGD (mapgd.c:3495)
> ==5821==    by 0x4437A8: msSaveImageAGG (mapagg.cpp:2216)
> ==5821==    by 0x41ACB4: msSaveImage (maputil.c:657)
> ==5821==    by 0x40E6B4: main (genimages.c:1120)
> ==5821==
> ==5821==
> ==5821== 66 (48 direct, 18 indirect) bytes in 3 blocks are definitely 
> lost in loss record 11 of 15
> ==5821==    at 0x4A1A362: calloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:279)
> ==5821==    by 0x427680: msLayerWhichItems (maplayer.c:435)
> ==5821==    by 0x42A20D: msDrawVectorLayer (mapdraw.c:841)
> ==5821==    by 0x429E44: msDrawLayer (mapdraw.c:738)
> ==5821==    by 0x429A73: msDrawMap (mapdraw.c:441)
> ==5821==    by 0x40E67E: main (genimages.c:1112)
> ==5821==
> ==5821== LEAK SUMMARY:
> ==5821==    definitely lost: 96 bytes in 10 blocks.
> ==5821==    indirectly lost: 18 bytes in 3 blocks.
> ==5821==      possibly lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks.
> ==5821==    still reachable: 7,610 bytes in 16 blocks.
> ==5821==         suppressed: 0 bytes in 0 blocks.
> ==5821== Reachable blocks (those to which a pointer was found) are not 
> shown.
> ==5821== To see them, rerun with: --show-reachable=yes
> 
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