how to release the virtual memory of pthread?
 

Hi all,

When i run my program, the virtual memory of that pthread is accumulatively increase. It was running well until the vmsize of that pthread reach the limit, roughly 2GB.

How can i release the virtual memory of pthread?

Thanks for any help.

By fixing its memory leak.

Could you advise me how to fix it?
Thanks

Please give some clues about what your program is.

What is it doing ?

Did you wrote it yourself ?

In what language is it written ?

It is a simple program written in C language.
I just want to try this first before doing the project.

May i know the sequence of a pthread process?
is it pthread_create(), pthread_join(),pthread_detach(),pthread_cancel()?

thanks

Use valgrind to find out where the memory is leaking.

Thanks jlliagre

I tried it and run my program using valgrind --leak-check=yes myprogram

after that
definitely lost=0
possibly lost=0 and
still reachable had some values.

Is it mean that my program does not have memory leak?

Likely, so the issue is probably your are allocating memory again and again, with keeping a reference to it.

You can use a heap profiler to figure out what is using this memory:

http://valgrind.org/docs/manual/ms-manual.html