Program eating memory, but only on one machine?

[Wolfgang Draxinger]

Per B. Sederberg wrote:

> Python 2.4.4c1 (#2, Oct 11 2006, 20:00:03)
> [GCC 4.1.2 20060928 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.1-13ubuntu5)] on
> [linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for
> more information.

Doesn't eat up.

> Python 2.4.3 (#1, Apr  7 2006, 10:54:33)
> [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5250)] on darwin
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more
> information.

Doesn't eat up.

> Python 2.4.4 (#1, Jan 21 2007, 12:09:48)
> [GCC 3.2.3 20030502 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.3-49)] on linux2
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more
> information.

Eats up memory

> So, does anyone have any suggestions for how I can debug this
> problem?

Have a look at the version numbers of the GCC used. Probably
something in your C code fails if it interacts with GCC 3.x.x.
It's hardly Python eating memory, this is probably your C
module. GC won't help here, since then you must add this into
your C module.

>  If my program ate up memory on all machines, then I would know
> where to start and would blame some horrible programming on my
> end. This just seems like a less straightforward problem.

GCC 3.x.x brings other runtime libs, than GCC 4.x.x, I would
check into that direction.

Wolfgang Draxinger
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