<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 10:13 PM, W. Michael Petullo <<a href="mailto:mike@flyn.org">mike@flyn.org</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> I am using gst_structure_get_name() to determine the mimetype of a stream (along with other things). In fact, I am doing this a few thousand times, each time setting up and tearing down a pipeline that makes use of decodebin. Because gst_structure_get_name() returns a constant string, I thought that it was wrong to free the returned string. However, I am finding that not free'ing the returned string results in what appears to be a memory leak. Approximately 5-6MB of memory is consumed after processing 2,419 media files. Free'ing the string returned by gst_structure_get_name() results in this memory not being consumed. </blockquote><div> Try, valgrind --tool=memcheck --leak-check=full <program> This should give a detailed memory profile. </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> Can someone comment on the correct use of gst_structure_get_name()? Or do these symptoms indicate a problem elsewhere? I have attached my C source for reference. -- Mike :wq ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ gstreamer-devel mailing list <a href="mailto:gstreamer-devel@lists.sourceforge.net">gstreamer-devel@lists.sourceforge.net</a> <a href="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gstreamer-devel" target="_blank">https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gstreamer-devel</a> </blockquote></div>