Re: Even more disconnected

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

Erik Sandberg wrote:
> On Tuesday 08 August 2006 22:01, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> > Erik Sandberg wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I will be completely away from all kinds of computers whatsoever for
> > > about one more week. But stay tuned: some radical cleanups of music
> > > functions are in progress.
> > did you realize that your last radical cleanup left a memory leak that
> > brought my autobuild to its knees? 
> Ouch, sorry!
> > This type of error is caught by make 
> > web, as it runs input/regression/ in one single lilypond invocation. 
>
> Strange: my gs problems make lily stop at regression/utf-8.ly, which among the 
> last regression/ files; so I should have noticed the problem here too. 
> Perhaps the problem is that I have too much RAM? (1G)
>
> Perhaps it would be sensible to let `make web' constrain lily's memory usage 
> by default, to something reasonable like 256M?

Yes, good idea.

> > Can 
> > you put a priority to fixing  your GS configuration so you can run "make
> > web" completely, and fix these problems before they are committed?  Thanks.
>
> Is this the scm_gc_protect in translator.cc (which you already fixed), or is 
> it something unknown?


It's unknown. The symptom is that -ddebug-gc shows that over the course 
of a lot of files, some objects seem to accumulate, in particular Probs 
and Moments.

> (in the former case, I don't understand the error completely: how can the GC 
> protection introduce a memory leak?)

If protect something, but don't have a matching unprotect, then memory 
will never be released.


> I am now back in civilization, so I can work on the gs problems. I'll try 
> starting with a fresh 32-bit ubuntu installation.



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