weird memory leak

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <1ba6797c.0201221154.2e756752 at posting.google.com>,
Jeremie Roux <jeremie at jarna.com> wrote:
>
>I have this program that leaks in a weird way:
>it runs at about 80% of my CPU and after a little while (maybe 5 or 10
>minutes) starts leaking (pretty big: about 1MB/minute)
>If I run it with less threads, the CPU load goes down, the time it
>takes to start leaking increases, and the leak is not as bad. And
>eventually, if I run it single threaded, I can leave it run for days
>without seing any leak (I haven't left it run longer than a week
>though).

Does the leaking happen if no exceptions get printed?  Why are you using
setDaemon(), anyway?
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