eglDestroySurface() doesn't free memory on LinuxPC

PowerVR Insider
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I’ve been trying to track down a memory leak & found it is due to the fact that eglDestroySurface() doesn’t release any memory.





I do the following:





1) Create and map an X window


2) Create a window surface for the X window


3) Create a context for the window surface


4) Make the window’s context current


5) Create a pbuffer surface


6) Create a context for that pbuffer surface


7) Make the pbuffer context current (with the pbuffer surface)


8) glClear(GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT)


9) Make the window’s context current again (with window surface)


10) Delete the pbuffer context


11) Delete the pbuffer surface


12) repeat 5-11





It doesn’t matter how large the pbuffer is, eglCreatePBufferSurface always allocates ~1.1M, so the VmRss & VmSize both increase by 1.1M each time I create & destroy a pbuffer. After a few seconds the program aborts with:





"X Error of failed request: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)"





I can post some example code, if required.





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Hi Tom,





thanks for reporting this. We’re looking into the problem.

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Hi Tom,

Thank you very much for this detailed report, I’ll take a look at it and try to fix it before the next release.

Peter