[Rcpp-devel] Incomplete Heap memory freeing under R

| I have been working on connections between R and my computational 
| platform on Linux. I have designed a bridge function in C++ using 
| RInside and the connection seems to work as expected now. However, I 
| have a question regarding the heap memory usage.
| First, take a look at the Valgrind report for a short run without any 
| R-connections in the executable:
| ==13263== Memcheck, a memory error detector
| ==13263== Copyright (C) 2002-2012, and GNU GPL'd, by Julian Seward et al.
| ==13263== Using Valgrind-3.8.1 and LibVEX; rerun with -h for copyright info
| ==13263== Command: ./supergha stoxx
| ==13263== Parent PID: 1
| ==13263==
| ==13263==
| ==13263== HEAP SUMMARY:
| ==13263==     in use at exit: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
| ==13263==   total heap usage: 81,741 allocs, 81,741 frees, 45,942,809 
| bytes allocated
| ==13263==
| ==13263== All heap blocks were freed -- no leaks are possible
| ==13263==
| ==13263== For counts of detected and suppressed errors, rerun with: -v
| ==13263== ERROR SUMMARY: 0 errors from 0 contexts (suppressed: 6 from 6)

You have to show us the code for the 'null model' here.
 
| Next, take a look at the Valgrind report with exactly the same run, but 
| with <RInside.h> included in a h-file. Furthermore, I define a C++ class 

I am afraid that this is not a valid baseline.  As I attempted to explain
previously, embedding R entails embedding an entire interpreter with its
own memory management and memory pool.  

A proper baseline comparison might start by following "Writing R Extensions"
and to see how to embed R 'by hand' in C/C++ executable.  _That_ version
could then be compared to RInside to assert whether or not RInside has
_additional_ allocations.

Dirk

| for the communication between C++ and R in the same h-file. However, 
| this class is never used in the program. The only thing connecting the 
| program to R is the preprocessor directive #include <RInside.h>. No 
| R-computations at all. No new allocations in the code. No embedded R-calls:
| 
| ==13875== Memcheck, a memory error detector
| ==13875== Copyright (C) 2002-2012, and GNU GPL'd, by Julian Seward et al.
| ==13875== Using Valgrind-3.8.1 and LibVEX; rerun with -h for copyright info
| ==13875== Command: ./supergha stoxx
| ==13875== Parent PID: 1
| ==13875==
| ==13875==
| ==13875== HEAP SUMMARY:
| ==13875==     in use at exit: 8 bytes in 1 blocks
| ==13875==   total heap usage: 81,767 allocs, 81,766 frees, 45,986,922 
| bytes allocated
| ==13875==
| ==13875== 8 bytes in 1 blocks are still reachable in loss record 1 of 1
| ==13875==    at 0x4A06A2E: malloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:270)
| ==13875==    by 0x33B08042B8: ??? (in /usr/lib64/libgomp.so.1.0.0)
| ==13875==    by 0x33B080ED1A: ??? (in /usr/lib64/libgomp.so.1.0.0)
| ==13875==    by 0x33B0805452: ??? (in /usr/lib64/libgomp.so.1.0.0)
| ==13875==    by 0x33B0810A25: ??? (in /usr/lib64/libgomp.so.1.0.0)
| ==13875==    by 0x33B0803E62: ??? (in /usr/lib64/libgomp.so.1.0.0)
| ==13875==    by 0x7FF000449: ???
| ==13875==    by 0x78786F7473006167: ???
| ==13875==    by 0x6F723D52455354FF: ???
| ==13875==    by 0x4C00616D72657472: ???
| ==13875==    by 0x723D454D414E474E: ???
| ==13875==    by 0x616D726574736E: ???
| ==13875==
| ==13875== LEAK SUMMARY:
| ==13875==    definitely lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
| ==13875==    indirectly lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
| ==13875==      possibly lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
| ==13875==    still reachable: 8 bytes in 1 blocks
| ==13875==         suppressed: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
| ==13875==
| ==13875== For counts of detected and suppressed errors, rerun with: -v
| ==13875== ERROR SUMMARY: 0 errors from 0 contexts (suppressed: 6 from 6)
| /home/aton6/rosterma/research/catsm/super_catsm_R/stoxx_50/valgrind_test>
| 
| Since my platform scales with tens of thousands of parallel processors 
| as I have demonstrated in numerous papers, I want to be sure that no 
| heap memory faults are included in the program for example through R 
| before invoking it in production runs.
| 
| -- 
| Ralf ?stermark
| Ph.D(econ), Ph.D(pol)
| Professor of Accounting and Optimization Systems
| School of Business Economics at
| ?bo Akademi University
| 20500 ?bo
| Finland
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PS  Also look at Writing R Extension for _plain_ R via valgrind. Then do

    cat("hello, world\n"); q("no")

   and see what Valgrind reports.  That is the second part of the baseline.

Dirk

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