[fpc-devel]Problems with AnsiStrings (memory leak)

[Marco van de Voort]

> You see, never more memory than 3 times the real string is used (15 kb
> in my example and not >1 mb). Of course I don't know enough about
> memory organisation in fpc, but this seems quite logical to me. After
> two steps there should be always enough space left to re-use old
> blocks.
> 
> What makes the problem? Do you have problems re-using previously
> allocated (and then freed) blocks?

IIRC
Remerging old blocks is slow, and only done for the smallest  blocks.

Since you are using Linux, you can try to use CMem as a 
workaround.



Marco van de Voort (MarcoV at Stack.nl or marco at freepascal.org)