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

Thank you all for your feedback and comments. I'll try to work on a
component test driver program and integrate the above code run with
valgrind/Asan capture the results and get back to you


Regards,
Sasmit Utkarsh
+91-7674022625


On Fri, Mar 13, 2026 at 6:06 AM Cristian Rodriguez <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 12, 2026 at 3:44 PM Sasmit Utkarsh via curl-library
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Team,
> >
> > 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
>
> Using top is meaningless in this context, what you care about is an
> always increasing PSS
> I'm not looking at your code, provide the simplest possible
> reproducer.or use asan to find memory leaks.
>

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