[Kamailio-Users] Perl module and memory leak in append_branch

[Daniel-Constantin Mierla]

Hello,

On 26.08.2009 2:07 Uhr, James Puckett wrote:
> I have followed a bit of the discussions regarding the problems with 
> memory management between the perl modules and the core kamailio 
> software.
that is when calling functions exported by modules that need fixup. For 
append_branch() should not be the case.
>
> I need to get append_branch working from within the perl module so 
> that it doesn't cause a memory leak.  It's been a while since I did 
> any serious straight C programming, but if someone can point me to the 
> correct way to handle memory allocated with the module so that it gets 
> freed in the core I'd be glad to take this problem on.
>
> Specifically, I'm using something that looks like:
>
>  $m->append_branch("<sip:".$cdpn."\@".$peers{$_}."?From=%3Csip:".$sourcenumber."@".$destIp."%3E;tag=".$fromtag.">", 
> $qval);
>
> This leaves about 190 bytes per call unfreed.  

Do you have the memory log? That will help to troubleshoot.

Cheers,
Daniel

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