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Re: New with C++ and libcurl; getting massive memory leak

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2007 13:27:49 +0200 (CEST)

On Tue, 3 Apr 2007, Torch wrote:

> curl = curl_easy_init();

[...]

> curl_free(curl);

This is completely wrong. curl_easy_cleanup() that handle.

> and the memory usage has went down immensly, namely now it just increases by
> 5 to 75kb on each request instead of 1 to 5mb.

I didn't spot the difference.

But isn't the "5 to 75kb" simply the response body size that you append to the
buffer?

Since you have a tool that detects memory leaks, can't it pinpoint _where_ the
allocations are made?

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Received on 2007-04-03

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