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

Hilmar Lapp hlapp at gmx.net
Sat Aug 9 16:00:46 UTC 2008


This smells of circular references somewhere. I think the first point  
I would go looking is the species storing - does the problem go away  
if you turn that off? Maybe the version of weaken() is at play here?

	-hilmar

On Aug 9, 2008, at 10:15 AM, Chris Fields wrote:

> Forgot to mention, maybe we can file this as a bug?  It's a pretty  
> serious one but it should be easy to narrow down; the change had to  
> be introduced fairly recently.
>
> 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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> Christopher Fields
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> Lab of Dr. Marie-Claude Hofmann
> College of Veterinary Medicine
> University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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