[webkit-dev] Curl resourcehandle leaks in Linux/Gtk port

Mike Emmel mike.emmel at gmail.com
Wed Sep 10 07:22:58 PDT 2008


This leak is fixed in the ncurl port.

On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 6:41 AM, Marco Barisione
<marco.barisione at collabora.co.uk> wrote:
> Il giorno mer, 10/09/2008 alle 13.26 +0530, zaheer ahmad ha scritto:
>> hi,
>>
>> In the linux Gtk port, with Webkit revision 33493, i see that the
>> resource handles (curl backend) never get released after completing
>> the data transfer for that request. This results in big leaks in
>> resourcehandles as well as the curl internal data structures. (~800k
>> on opening nytimes.com and closing the connection)
>
> I started some days ago to write some smart pointer classes for the Gtk
> port (using g_free or g_object_ref/unref) that should be able to fix
> some issues (I already fixed several memory leaks).
>
> Now I just started to use valgrind to find other memory leaks, so this
> and other issues should be hopefully fixed soon.
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
> Marco Barisione
>
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