Re: Is it a memory leak in PostgreSQL 7.4beta?

> I am seeing a slow but steady growth of the backend process on a Linux
> box (RHL 8.0) --- top shows it growing a few K every few seconds.
> 
> But I see *zero* growth with the same test on HPUX 10.20.
> 
> A possible wild card is that the Postgres build I'm using on the Linux
> box is compiled for profiling (-pg, no --enable-debug or --enable-cassert)
> whereas the HPUX build has --enable-debug and --enable-cassert but no
> profiling.  I'm not aware that there's any known memory leakage in
> Linux' profiling support, though.
> 
> Can anyone else reproduce this, or confirm they don't see it?  What
> platform, and what configure options?


I have tried it on our Ultra Sparc 10 running Debian (Woody).
Same problem.
The postmaster starts at around 2.2mb and keeps allocating memory :(
Maybe I can test it on AIX within the next two weeks (still waiting for 
the machine to come).
Regards,
    Hans


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