Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Memory leak when creating several USRP 2 objects in C

[Eric Blossom]

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 10:53:49AM +0100, Christian Kisters wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Like in the old thread '[Discuss-gnuradio] memory leak when creating several
> usrp2 objects' from 
> 'Jakob Meineke Thu, 30 Jul 2009 09:52:20' 
> http://www.mail-archive.com/address@hidden/msg20403.html 
> the problem with the memory leak still exists.
> 
> 
> The memory usage increases while creating several USRP2s in C.
> 
> usrp2::usrp2::sptr u2;
> for (int i=0;i<20;i++)
> {
>       U2.reset();
>       u2 = usrp2::usrp2::make("eth0","");
> }
> 
> The used memory will be released only by closing the program. So it's
> expected that the memory runs out of its limits.
> 
> Has someone an idea how to fix this problem?
> 
> Best regards
> Chrisitan

Thanks Christian for pointing out the problem.

I'll take a look at this, but it may be a few days.
How much is it leaking per iteration?
How are you determining how much it's leaking?

Thanks!
Eric