[gecode-users] Memory problem

[Gustavo Gutierrez]

On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 9:20 AM, Guido Tack <tack at ps.uni-sb.de> wrote:

> I tried to find out more about the Mac OS malloc.
>
> Apparently, Mac OS never frees blocks that are smaller than 15359 bytes,
> but rather tries to reuse them for further mallocs in the same process.
> http://kevin.sb.org/2007/07/05/malloc-free-space-not-reclaimed/
>
> I tried replacing malloc with ptmalloc3 (as suggested in that article), and
> it completely solves the problem.
>

Now I am wondering if the same problem can occur when using gecode in the
*normal* way, i mean, with gecode search engines as in the examples. Any
comment?

Regards,
Gustavo


> Cheers,
>        Guido
>
>


-- 
Gustavo Gutierrez
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