[plt-scheme] Debugging non-scheme-heap memory leaks

On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 12:16:18PM -0500, Eli Barzilay wrote:
>On Jan  2, Matthew Flatt wrote:
>> Can you say more about how you're running this program an measuring
>> memory use?
>>
>> When I run directly in MzScheme, it takes about 2 minutes --- yes,
>> generators can be relatively slow --- but memory use is stable at
>> 22MB.  when I run in DrScheme with debugging enabled, it takes about
>> 3 minutes, and memory use still seems to be stable (around 120MB for
>> the whole DrScheme process). I'm running on x86 Mac OS X.
>
>FWIW, I tried it on a 64 bit machine running Fedora (the build
>machine), and the numbers are different -- takes about 6 minutes real
>time and 7s user time (and this is not a slow machine), and memory use
>was at 103-104mb.  But the memory was *very* stable there.  I tried it
>both with 4.2.3 and the newest nightly build (which was 6s slower
>overall, with 0.5s more in user time).

I rebuilt PLT myself, and this executable doesn't seem to leak memory.
I've noticed that Arch Linux builds with --enable-noopt, and I'm
wondering if this is a cause for the memory leak.

David