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Re^3: ithreads memory leakby BrowserUk (Patriarch) |
on Apr 09, 2015 at 17:41 UTC ( [id://1122976]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
First:Ignore anything and everything sundialsvc4 says. He has a proven track record of meaningless, misdirected & pure malicious posts on subjects he has provably no knowledge or understanding of. And in particular, threads.then kill the walking timer, The fundamental problem with your code is this:
Run that code and watch the process (top or whatever). It immediately creates a thread that just sleeps for a thousand seconds. The main thread then waits for 5 seconds and then (attempts to) kills the sleeping thread. But the thread never sees the "signal" ... until it finishes sleeping. This is because those "signals" aren't real signals; but some home-brewed simulation of them that cannot even interrupt a sleep. They (the pseudo-signals), should never have been added to the threads api; and they should never be used! And that explains the "memory growth" problem; you are expecting these threads to go away when before you start their replacements; but they simply won't. And that's a problem for your architecture which is built around that premise. I have 3 solutions for you: one is a quick fix; and the other two will required fairly extensive changes to your program. (But its my dinner time right now, so I'll detail them in a while. I just wanted to warn you to ignore sundialsvc4 who has never posted a single line of working code here. Be warned!) With the rise and rise of 'Social' network sites: 'Computers are making people easier to use everyday'
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