[Vm-dev] [OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm] Memory leak (Issue #642)

[Eliot Miranda]

On Sun, Jun 19, 2022 at 2:11 PM smalltalking ***@***.***>
wrote:

> I noticed that recent VMs leak a few hundred kilobytes of memory every 3-6
> seconds. It happens even if you just start VM and do nothing with the image.
>

Can someone bisect and identify the commit that introduced this?

> I tested it with various 64-bit Linux VMs. There seems to be no upper
> limit on the leaked memory. The leak happens even with the -memory option
> set. The size of the object memory is not affected by the leak, saved
> images remain small and the image does not see the increase in memory usage.
> Affected VMs include: 5.0-202206021410, 5.0-202205110711, 5.0-202204190959
> Unaffected VMs include: 5.0-202112022203 and 5.0-202112201228
> The 5.0-202206021410 assert and debug VMs leak the memory as well.
>
_,,,^..^,,,_
best, Eliot


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