{"id":3,"date":"2007-10-24T21:52:03","date_gmt":"2007-10-25T02:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/ted\/2007\/10\/24\/rlk0b-and-staying-that-way\/"},"modified":"2007-10-24T21:52:03","modified_gmt":"2007-10-25T02:52:03","slug":"rlk0b-and-staying-that-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/ted\/2007\/10\/24\/rlk0b-and-staying-that-way\/","title":{"rendered":"RLk:0B (and staying that way)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, some time ago<a href=\"http:\/\/dbaron.org\/log\/2007-08#e20070804a\"> dbaron got RLk down to 0 bytes<\/a> on our leak test box.\u00a0 Sometime after that, we deployed the new Linux reference platform, only to have that go back up to 8 bytes.\u00a0 Turns out <a href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=397103\">it was my fault<\/a>, a string wasn&#8217;t being freed in the crash reporter code.\u00a0 The crash reporter must not have been enabled on the previous reference platform.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve made amends and fixed this, and I also checked in <a href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=390916\">rhelmer&#8217;s patch<\/a> to make the leak test boxes turn orange if RLk goes above zero, so we should be able to hold the line on this per our test failure policy.\u00a0 For comparison, on the <a href=\"http:\/\/tinderbox.mozilla.org\/showlog.cgi?log=Mozilla1.8\/1193277180.1193278532.6501.gz\" title=\"balsa test failure\">1.8 branch<\/a> we leak up to 45KB(!) per test run.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, some time ago dbaron got RLk down to 0 bytes on our leak test box.\u00a0 Sometime after that, we deployed the new Linux reference platform, only to have that go back up to 8 bytes.\u00a0 Turns out it was my fault, a string wasn&#8217;t being freed in the crash reporter code.\u00a0 The crash reporter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}