From: Warren Young
Date: October 3 2006 11:18pm
Subject: Re: mysql++ memory usage
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Alex Burton wrote:
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> The memory that it uses is increasing as it runs.

According to what tool?  The likes of Windows Task Manager and top(1) on 
*ix are notoriously unreliable when it comes to detecting the true 
memory usage of a process.  They count things like OS-allocated buffers, 
mapped DLLs (if a DLL is mapped by multiple processes, its memory 
footprint is counted against all processes that use it), etc.

> It makes no difference if I move the connection out of the loop.

Do you mean the connection object, or both the object and the call to 
its connect() method?

> I don't think that it is a memory 'leak' as leak detectors can't find any leaks.

Unless your memory debugger is broken, there are no leaks, then.

Sorry to be cranky about this, but unless you can show me where in the 
MySQL++ code the memory leak is, I don't know what else I can tell you.