Memory blows up when processing http://baseplugins.thep.lu.se/ repository

[Jari Häkkinen]

At program exit (in memory destruction) a catastrophic memory leaks occurs. The issue has been there for at least 2 years. Parsing other large repositories, e.g. ​http://base.thep.lu.se) does not trigger the leak (at least not as severe as for baseplugins).

This issue is in all versions of svndigest (svnstat) since v0.3, i.e., since we started using the subversion API.

[Jari Häkkinen]

Digging through the code I found enough evidence to realize the we are not initializing properly, and then I found ​http://subversion.apache.org/docs/community-guide/conventions.html#apr-pools

[Jari Häkkinen]

(In [1574]) Addresses #528. The baseplugins issue is resolved with this fix.

[Jari Häkkinen]

How far back should we copy this fix. I think the current stable 0.10 and future branches are good enough. 0.10 has been out since three years (2012) and no one should use older releases.

[Peter Johansson]

Replying to jari:

How far back should we copy this fix. I think the current stable 0.10 and future branches are good enough. 0.10 has been out since three years (2012) and no one should use older releases.

agreed

[Jari Häkkinen]

The nightly updates of projects stats at ​http://cbbp.thep.lu.se/~jari/svndigest/ works perfectly again so I'd say we finally resolved the exit memory leak.