About the APR’s Memory pools which seem to cause memory leaks
Resources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Portable_Runtime http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_pool http://dev.ariel-networks.com/apr/apr-tutorial/html/apr-tutorial-3.html http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.1/ch08s05.html The APR pools are some big tables which contain references to consecutive memory areas which are used by the application. Once the application releases such an area, the pool marks the memory area as available, but it doesn’t give it back to the OS. Let’s take an example which better […]