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Re: Does performing the curl_easy_init and curl_easy_cleanup thousands of times increases the memory footprint of the process when observed using top command in linux

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From: Daniel Stenberg via curl-library <curl-library_at_lists.haxx.se>
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2026 22:54:14 +0100 (CET)

On Thu, 12 Mar 2026, Sasmit Utkarsh via curl-library wrote:

> I'm trying to write a program which uses which uses in libcurl handles in
> multithreaded manner. i.e transfer/make a http post request every 10 secs
> using the libh2o event-loop powered by libuv worker threads. But what i see
> is when I clear the handle once done with the request. I see that memory
> footprint of the process increases in top. is there any better approach
> sharing the sample code for review

1. The code looks... questionable with threads and globals and possible memory
leaks.

2. Is valgrind happy? If valgrind is happy then I think you're good.

3. That was too much code for me too review for fun.

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