[Bioperl-l] malloc errors while using Bio::SeqIO?

Chris Fields cjfields at illinois.edu
Sat Aug 9 13:56:19 UTC 2008


There is definitely a memory leak.  I can confirm it on OSX 10.4/10.5  
using bioperl-live.

I'll try looking into it this weekend, but I can't promise when it'll  
be fixed; my laptop is on the fritz.

chris

On Aug 9, 2008, at 7:58 AM, Dave Messina wrote:

>>
>> I seem to vaguely recall that even if perl free()'s memory that  
>> doesn't
>> necessarily mean that the memory is returned to the OS for the  
>> runtime of
>> the program
>
>
> I believe that's correct.
>
>
>
>> What OS are you on? I'm running perl 5.8.6 on OS X 10.4.11 intel.
>>
>
> perl 5.10 or 5.8.8 on OS X 10.5.4 Intel.
>
>
> Dave



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