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* Memory leak from seek/ftell with files larger than 2GB
@ 2015-02-25 16:05 Anand Mohanadoss
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From: Anand Mohanadoss @ 2015-02-25 16:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Hi,

We are seeing an issue with seek and ftell leaking memory with files larger
than 2GB.

We are using 2.0.11 guile built as a 32-bit application with large file
support enabled (guile was built using gcc 4.4.0 for Linux with flags
_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64, _LARGEFILE_SOURCE and _LARGEFILE64_SOURCE).  The
issue also appears to happen with guile 2.2.

The memory leaks start only after the offset exceeds maximum positive value
for a 32-bit signed integer. ftell and seek do work as expected (given how
lseek should work with large file support).

Appended is a program that illustrates the problem.  The first seek simply
skips the part of the file where you won't see a memory leak. If you
comment out ftell and the second seek lines and un-comment the lines that
follow them, there is no memory leak.

Is this a bug in guile or should we be doing things differently?  If this
is a known issue, is there a recommended work around?

Thanks,
Anand

(define MAX_SIGNED_INT 2147483647)
(define BYTES_TO_READ 10)

(define file "/tmp/test.pcap")  ;sample file greater than 2.5GB

(define (traverse file)
 (let* ((port (open-input-file file #:binary #t))
        (file-sz (stat:size (stat port)))
        (ua (make-bytevector BYTES_TO_READ 0))
        (cur-offset 0))
   (seek port (- MAX_UNSIGNED_INT 1000) SEEK_CUR)
   (while (< (ftell port) (- file-sz BYTES_TO_READ))
   ;(while (< cur-offset (- file-sz BYTES_TO_READ))
       (seek  port BYTES_TO_READ SEEK_CUR)
       ;(get-bytevector-n! port ua 0 BYTES_TO_READ)
       (set! cur-offset (+ BYTES_TO_READ cur-offset)))
   (close-port port)))

(traverse file)

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