Re: [Condor-users] memory leak in Condor 7.4.2 schedd ???

[Dan Bradley <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Matthew Farrellee wrote:
> FYI, Condor uses string interning to minimize the memory footprint of 
> jobs (all classads actually), but, iirc, does not always garbage 
> collect the string pool. If you have a lot of jobs passing through 
> your Schedd, say with large unique Environments, you could certainly 
> see memory usage increase.

Actually, the ClassAd string pool is garbage collected via reference 
counting.  I'm not aware of any case where this string pool gets bloated 
from jobs that are no longer in the job queue.

--Dan