[zeromq-dev] Repeated creation of ZMQ sockets lead to memory bloating?

[Charles Remes]

This has to do with memory fragmentation.

See here:  http://stackoverflow.com/questions/447899/why-does-my-c-program-not-free-memory-as-it-should

Also, search the mailing list archives for a discussion on this topic a year or two ago.

cr

On Feb 15, 2013, at 4:55 PM, Kah-Chan Low <kahchanlow at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi!
> In my experimental run I repeatedly create and destroy ZMQ sockets.  I simply let the zmq::socket_t destructor take care of the deallocation.  I assume that ZMQ knows how to clean up the connections the destructed sockets have previously established.
> As time goes on I notice that the virtual memory of my process keeps going up.  I am wondering if ZMQ has anything to do with the memory bloating.
> Thanks!!
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