Re: [Xenomai-help] How should rt_task_delete(NULL) be used?

[Anders Blomdell <anders.blomdell@domain.hid>]

Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote:
> Anders Blomdell wrote:
>  > Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote:
>  > > Anders Blomdell wrote:
>  > >  > Why does the following program grow it's VMSIZE? This is the output I get:
>  > >  > 
>  > >  > [child =  0,  0] VmSize:            1912 kB
>  > >  > ...
>  > >  > [child = 19, 19] VmSize:            3204 kB
>  > > 
>  > > Could you dump /proc/self/maps at the beginning and the end, to see
>  > > where the reserved memory comes from ?
>  > > 
>  > 
>  > Sligtly modified program (being sloppy seems to be the better choice, just
>  > returning without trying to cleanup self is cheaper, weird)...
> 
> It looks like proper thread cleanup is needed to reclaim the threads
> stack. Could you try the attached patch ?
[child =  0,  0] VmSize:            1960 kB
...
[child = 19, 19] VmSize:            1960 kB

Looks like it did the trick, great thanks!

Stay tuned for more problems :-)

/Anders

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