On Mar 15, 2006, at 9:25 PM, Olivier Delalleau wrote:
I am constructing a graph exactly the same way as in the spanning tree example here: http://www.boost.org/libs/graph/example/prim-example.cpp i.e. using a constructor of the kind Graph g(edges, edges + sizeof(edges) / sizeof(E), weights, num_nodes); where Graph is some kind of adjacency_list. In my application, edges is rather big (on the order of 1e7 elements).
Problem: when this constructor is called, it allocates a huge amount of memory (I see this when I do a 'top' to monitor the memory usage while in gdb). And this memory is not freed when the graph is deleted (when it gets out of the scope, or, if I use a pointer instead, when I delete it explicitely). Is there a way to recover this memory? Any hint on how to make it use less memory?
If it's true that we're not deallocating memory properly in the graph data structure, it's a critical bug that we absolutely must fix. "top", however, isn't useful for determining if there is a memory leak. Doug