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I'm using MagickCore under VS 2005. I've tried to run MagickCore sample which is here http://www.imagemagick.org/script/magick-core.php

and figured out that at the beginning (this line) :

MagickCoreGenesis(*argv,MagickTrue);

this sample application takes 1 624 KB memory and at the end :

return(0);

it takes 3 276 KB memory.

Where is 1652 KB memory ? Why it doesn't free all allocated memory ?

Greetings
MS

We ran the sample program using ImageMagick 6.3.4-10 and checking for leaks with valgrind. There were 156 bytes still reachable but they were from the libtool library, not ImageMagick:

• ==32397== ERROR SUMMARY: 508 errors from 20 contexts (suppressed: 0 from 0)
  ==32397== malloc/free: in use at exit: 156 bytes in 2 blocks.
  ==32397== malloc/free: 5,022 allocs, 5,020 frees, 4,886,593 bytes allocated.
  ==32397== For counts of detected errors, rerun with: -v
  ==32397== searching for pointers to 2 not-freed blocks.
  ==32397== checked 643,008 bytes.
  ==32397==
  ==32397==
  ==32397== 20 bytes in 1 blocks are still reachable in loss record 1 of 2
  ==32397== at 0x4004824: calloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:279)
  ==32397== by 0xCCF35B: _dlerror_run (in /lib/libdl-2.6.so)
  ==32397== by 0xCCEBA3: dlopen@@GLIBC_2.1 (in /lib/libdl-2.6.so)
  ==32397== by 0x4196D04: sys_dl_open (ltdl.c:1110)
  ==32397== by 0x419470F: tryall_dlopen (ltdl.c:2443)
  ==32397== by 0x4195E39: tryall_dlopen_module (ltdl.c:2510)
  ==32397== by 0x4196555: try_dlopen (ltdl.c:2542)
  ==32397== by 0x41969C2: lt_dlopen (ltdl.c:3437)
  ==32397== by 0x40F4E24: OpenModule (module.c:1076)
  ==32397== by 0x40F1198: GetMagickInfo (magick.c:456)
  ==32397== by 0x40F16C2: IsMagickConflict (magick.c:862)
  ==32397== by 0x415C667: GetPathComponent (utility.c:925)
  ==32397==
  ==32397==
  ==32397== 136 bytes in 1 blocks are still reachable in loss record 2 of 2
  ==32397== at 0x40054E5: malloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:149)
  ==32397== by 0xB3F80F: add_to_global (in /lib/ld-2.6.so)
  ==32397== by 0xB3FCC6: dl_open_worker (in /lib/ld-2.6.so)
  ==32397== by 0xB3BEC5: _dl_catch_error (in /lib/ld-2.6.so)
  ==32397== by 0xB3F4B1: _dl_open (in /lib/ld-2.6.so)
  ==32397== by 0xCCEC6C: dlopen_doit (in /lib/libdl-2.6.so)
  ==32397== by 0xB3BEC5: _dl_catch_error (in /lib/ld-2.6.so)
  ==32397== by 0xCCF2EB: _dlerror_run (in /lib/libdl-2.6.so)
  ==32397== by 0xCCEBA3: dlopen@@GLIBC_2.1 (in /lib/libdl-2.6.so)
  ==32397== by 0x4196D04: sys_dl_open (ltdl.c:1110)
  ==32397== by 0x419470F: tryall_dlopen (ltdl.c:2443)
  ==32397== by 0x4195E39: tryall_dlopen_module (ltdl.c:2510)
  ==32397==
  ==32397== LEAK SUMMARY:
  ==32397== definitely lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks.
  ==32397== possibly lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks.
  ==32397== still reachable: 156 bytes in 2 blocks.
  ==32397== suppressed: 0 bytes in 0 blocks.

Run a trace on leaked memory under Windows and post the trace here. If you can show the leak is within ImageMagick rather than a Windows system library, we will investigate further.

OK. Lets take real working piece of code. I'm using MagickCore to convert images from 24bit to 8bit. I've got code :

MagickCoreGenesis(NULL,MagickTrue);
ExceptionInfo *exception;
Image *image,*images,*thumbnails;;
ImageInfo *image_info;
exception=AcquireExceptionInfo();
image_info=CloneImageInfo((ImageInfo *) NULL);
(void) strcpy(image_info->filename,filename);

images=ReadImage(image_info,exception);

thumbnails=NewImageList();
while ((image=RemoveFirstImageFromList(&images)) != (Image *) NULL)
{
QuantizeInfo *qinf=AcquireQuantizeInfo(image_info);
qinf->number_colors=256;
qinf->dither=MagickFalse;
QuantizeImage(qinf,image);
(void) AppendImageToList(&thumbnails,image);
}

(void) strcpy(thumbnails->filename,filename);
image_info->orientation=OrientationType::LeftTopOrientation;
WriteImage(image_info,thumbnails);
thumbnails=DestroyImageList(thumbnails);
image_info=DestroyImageInfo(image_info);
exception=DestroyExceptionInfo(exception);
MagickCoreTerminus();

and everything works perfectly. But I don't want read image from disk because I've got it rendered into memory and this (very similar) piece of code has memory problems :

MagickCoreGenesis(NULL,MagickTrue);
ExceptionInfo *exception;
Image *image,*images,*thumbnails;;
ImageInfo *image_info;
exception=AcquireExceptionInfo();
image_info=CloneImageInfo((ImageInfo *) NULL);
(void) strcpy(image_info->filename,filename);
//don't read from disk - get it from memory
images=ConstituteImage(width,height,"RGB",CharPixel,tbuf,exception);

thumbnails=NewImageList();
while ((image=RemoveFirstImageFromList(&images)) != (Image *) NULL)
{
QuantizeInfo *qinf=AcquireQuantizeInfo(image_info);
qinf->number_colors=256;
qinf->dither=MagickFalse;
QuantizeImage(qinf,image);
//need to flip image
image=FlipImage(image,exception);
//without setting this I can't save 8bit png
image->compression=CompressionType::ZipCompression;
image->depth=8;
(void) AppendImageToList(&thumbnails,image);
}

//from here - the same code
(void) strcpy(thumbnails->filename,filename);
image_info->orientation=OrientationType::LeftTopOrientation;
WriteImage(image_info,thumbnails);
thumbnails=DestroyImageList(thumbnails);
image_info=DestroyImageInfo(image_info);
exception=DestroyExceptionInfo(exception);
MagickCoreTerminus();

where tbuf is declared :

unsigned char * tbuf=new unsigned char[width*height*3];
width=250
height=250

This code works almost perfectly - every time I use it, it takes and doesn't free approx 700KB memory.

I convert to .png images (from .png if I read it from disk).

I think the problem is that in the second version you have images=ConstituteImage(...) but you don't destroy "images" later.

Pete