calling personal.newAccount("mypassword") multiple times throws out of memory issue

[olahivepriyanka]

System information

Geth version: Geth/v1.4.10-stable/linux/go1.5.1
OS & Version: Linux
Commit hash : (if develop)

creating accounts on calling personal.newAccount in recursive loop

but it is throwing out of memory after creating for second time or third time

runtime: out of memory: cannot allocate 65536-byte block (536870912 in use)
fatal error: out of memory

runtime stack:
runtime.throw(0x89bf910, 0xd)
/usr/lib/go/src/runtime/panic.go:527 +0x7f
runtime.mCache_Refill(0x8746a000, 0x2, 0x9760c600)
/usr/lib/go/src/runtime/mcache.go:120 +0xd1
runtime.mallocgc.func2()
/usr/lib/go/src/runtime/malloc.go:611 +0x2b
runtime.systemstack(0x977a6fe0)
/usr/lib/go/src/runtime/asm_386.s:267 +0x57
runtime.mstart()
/usr/lib/go/src/runtime/proc1.go:674
...........................................

call personal.newAccount again and again

is anyone facing this kind of issue? i heard that because of unstable version it happens, so installed stable version in another system with 8gb RAM still problem continues..please someone help me to sove this. thank you

[SinErgy84]

no problem here, doing the same: creating nearly 100 accounts in a loop.
only "issue" is that creation takes around 3 seconds per account.

maybe machine / vm / os issue?

[olahivepriyanka]

i tried with 3 machines, problem appears to be the same.. with v1.4.9, v1.4.10, v1.5.0.... ubuntu 14.04 32bit

[SinErgy84]

maybe your selected passwords are the problem? what's their length? using special chars other than [0-9a-zA-z]?

mine are 51 chars long and alphanumeric with !@#$%&*? as special chars

[olahivepriyanka]

the password which i am using is "mypassword"

[karalabe]

A program running on a 32bit operating system can only ever access 2GB worth of memory. How much is your geth consuming when "idle"? The standard account crypto needs 256MB of memory to execute a single creation/unlock operation, though if you just create accounts iteratively it shouldn't pile up. Are you sure you're not creating the accounts concurrently, maxing out your 2GB 32 bit allowance?

I also started up an infinite loop with account creations and the memory usage is stable for me (left it running for 200 accounts).