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Re: thread heap leak?

* David Muse:

> Is there a case where they wouldn't be reused, or where the VIRT might
> grow to 2G or more before they are?  I think that's what I'm seeing.
> Those heaps pile up until the VIRT is about 2G, then the app crashes.

If you create 32 threads which make some long-term allocations and
then exit, without creating new threads, there will be 32 such heaps,
occupying 2 GiB of address space.  They will only get reused if you
create new threads.
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