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I am running a very simple multithreaded program (TestThread.C) which calls gethostbyname_r in several threads. My analysis of this program with both truss and DTrace suggest that is has a small leak. However, if I alter the program to have many more threads and run for a lot longer it never runs out of memory and does not carry on growing. Can anybody explain what I am missing in my analysis or

Howdy Folks, This release is after painstaking analysis of a memory leak that was reported by Bradley Taylor, reduced by myself, and then fixed after much work. You should all thank Bradley for finding the bizarre fix. It turns out the Ruby has a memory leak when you use pretty much any thread locking primitive other than Sync (Mutex, Monitor, etc.): http://pastie.caboo.se/10194 The fix (for