Parrot embedding system - Out of memory!

[Radovan Baranec]

Hi, I finally finished my "little" packet decoder. Now I am able to 
decode ether->ipv4->tcp. So I tried to run a few performance tests on a 
10GB pcap dump file but I found big problem. Because it is very big 
file, subroutine from loaded bytecode is being called many times. On my 
surprise every time it is called it allocates memory. So soon there is 
not enough memory and linux just kills my program. I am runnig on centos 
5, x86_64, custom kernel 2.6.29lb.06. Runcores or flags are not set.

Here is the code:

C code:
#ifdef DEBUG
    for(int i = 0; i < 2; i++) {
#else
    while (1) {
#endif
        retVal = pcap_next_ex(fp, &pktHeader, &pktData);

        // capture file ended
        if (retVal == -2) {
            break;
        }

        if (retVal < 0) {
            printf("Cannot read packet: %s\n", pcap_geterr(fp));
            clean();
            //spravna reakcia?
            return -1;
        }

        // Timeout expired
        if (retVal == 0) {
            continue;
        }

        Parrot_PMC_set_pointer(interp, packet, (void *)pktData);

        /*
         * Parrot_call_sub_ret_int
         * preplni pamat a odstreli ho to
         */
        if (Parrot_call_sub_ret_int(interp, sub, "IPII", packet, 
(int)pktHeader->caplen, load_bytecode)) {
        //if (Parrot_call_sub(interp, sub, "V")) {
            acc_packets++;
        }
        else {
            rej_packets++;
        }
        load_bytecode = 0;

    }

Parrot_call_sub_ret_int(interp, sub, "IPII", packet, 
(int)pktHeader->caplen, load_bytecode) - this function allocates memory 
every time it is being called. The code of subroutine is unimportant 
because I also tried to call empty subroutine with no param and local 
variables.

Radovan