Severe memory leak problem

[Daniel Neri]

Brian Bisaillon <bbisaillon@REDACTED> writes:

> It even looks like all the variables are reinitialized in my program
> with every tail recursive call. I don't understand why it keeps
> sucking up more memory.

Your receive_packet/2 function is unfortunately *not*
tail-recursive. A tail call has to be the "last" call, and in this
case it is not (e.g. a call to parse_clientcmds/2 follows it). See
also 
        http://www.erlang.se/doc/programming_rules.shtml#HDR20


Best wishes,
   --Daniel

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Daniel Neri
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