Re: possible memory leak in vintrp?

Hi Jim,

It's been on our list to look into this memory leak, which was
reported before.

I believe the problem is that "swig" was used to wrap the Fortran
code, and this code doesn't do any kind of memory management that I
can tell.

I'll check with the original developer and see if I can get some
more information for a fix.

--Mary

On Fri, 4 Sep 2009, James Boyle wrote:

> I am putting a lot of high frequency CAM hybrid data on pressure
> levels using Ngl.vinth2p.
> I have used this routine many times before.
> But this time , the number of calls per day exceeds 1500.
> One day goes OK, the data look reasonable but on the second day I get
> the error that is at the end of this message.
> It appears that Ngl has a memory leak that is exposed when the routine
> is called this many times.
>
> I am on OS X 10.5.8, using pyngl 1.3.0b1, python 2.6.1, numpy 1.3.
>
> python(98559) malloc: *** mmap(size=36864) failed (error code=12)
> *** error: can't allocate region
> *** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
> Bus error
>
> --Jim Boyle
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