On Fri, 16 Oct 2009, Krishna Chaithanya Muthyala wrote:

> I have a libcurl client which does an HTTP POST many times before the
> program exits. I wanted to know how the memory management works in libcurl.
>
> I have observed that some memory is being used for the first HTTP POST and
> not getting released. But no further memory is used for the succeeding HTTP
> POSTs.

Right, libcurl has a few caches and buffers that can grow.

> Are there any known leaks in libcurl while doing an HTTP POST?

No. Not in recent versions at least. But your description doesn't show a leak
either, so why the concern?

And I do recommend using valgrind to find, test for and track down memory
leaks.

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