Re: memory leak in gethnamaddr?

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <201403161128.26948.mark%ecs.vuw.ac.nz@localhost>,
Mark Davies  <mark%ecs.vuw.ac.nz@localhost> wrote:
>I have a 6.1_STABLE/i386 system on which I run sge_qmaster from the 
>sge-8.0.0.4nb5 package.  This normally sits at a memory usage of 
>around 48M but since upgrading from a 6.1_STABLE from around last Nov 
>to a recent one it now continually grows in size until it runs out of 
>memory after about 12 hours.
>
>I've tracked the change down to the getaddrinfo/gethnamaddr changes in 
>libc to make them reentrant that were pulled up in December.  Haven't 
>noticed any problems in any other binary.
>
>So is there now a memory leak in gethostbyaddr/gethostbyname or is 
>sge_qmaster calling them in some bogus way that it used to get away 
>with but doesn't now?  I can't see what that would be.

I would bet on a memory leak.

christos