[Ace-users] [ace-users] Instantiation of ACE_Task_Base from Windows thread (_beginthreadex) causes memory leak.

[Douglas C. Schmidt]

Hi Darren,

>Because of application requirements, I cannot use ACE throughout my
>application but must speak CORBA to another system. My Windows
>application is MFC based and the CORBA communications within a DLL.
>System requirement-s dictate I use ACE version 5.4.3 and TAO version
>1.4.3.

You are using a very old version of ACE+TAO!  Please upgrade to
ACE+TAO+CIAO x.6.2 (i.e., ACE 5.6.2, TAO 1.6.2, and CIAO 0.6.2), which
you can download from

http://download.dre.vanderbilt.edu

under the heading: "Latest Beta Kit."

The DOC groups at Washington University, UC Irvine, and Vanderbilt
University only provide "best effort" support for non-sponsors for the
latest release, as described in

http://www.dre.vanderbilt.edu/~schmidt/DOC_ROOT/ACE/docs/ACE-bug-process.html

Thus, if you need more "predictable" help for earlier versions of
ACE+TAO, I recommend that you check out

http://www.dre.vanderbilt.edu/support.html

for a list of companies that will provide you with ACE+TAO commercial
support.

Thanks very much,

        Doug


>During runtime, communication works great. I call ACE::init() at the
>beginning of the Windows thread containing ACE/TAO, and I call
>ACE::fini() at the conclusion of the thread (application closing).
>
>My problem arises when the application is closed. It seems TAO does
>not release its resources (Is this TSS as documented in
>http://www.theaceorb.com/faq/index.html#WindowsThreadsMemLeak?). This
>results in my application refusing to allow the DLL to unload. This
>causes my app to crash very regularly when the CORBA DLL is loaded.
>
>"Use ACE threads wherever possible" is not a solution for us. Is there
>a way to elegantly release the TSS or is there something else I am not
>seeing?
>
>Thank you so much for your help.


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