Weird dispatch_async memory behavior - objective-c

Question

I have the following dispatch_async code:
dispatch_async(openGLESContextQueue, ^{
[(EAGLView *)self.view setFramebuffer];
// Replace the implementation of this method to do your own custom drawing.
static const GLfloat squareVertices[] = {
-0.5f, -0.33f,
0.5f, -0.33f,
-0.5f, 0.33f,
0.5f, 0.33f,
};
static const GLubyte squareColors[] = {
127, 127, 0, 127,
0, 255, 255, 255,
0, 0, 0, 0,
255, 0, 255, 255,
};
static float transY = 0.0f;
glClearColor(0.5f, 0.5f, 0.5f, 1.0f);
glClear(GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT);
glMatrixMode(GL_PROJECTION);
glLoadIdentity();
glMatrixMode(GL_MODELVIEW);
glLoadIdentity();
glTranslatef(0.0f, (GLfloat)(sinf(transY)/2.0f), 0.0f);
transY += 0.075f;
glVertexPointer(2, GL_FLOAT, 0, squareVertices);
glEnableClientState(GL_VERTEX_ARRAY);
glColorPointer(4, GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE, 0, squareColors);
glEnableClientState(GL_COLOR_ARRAY);
glDrawArrays(GL_TRIANGLE_STRIP, 0, 4);
[(EAGLView *)self.view presentFramebuffer];
});
And when in Instruments, and even though the animation is running fine, I get tons of "64 bytes malloc"s that never get freed. Anyone know why?

Answer 1

I was finally able to solve the problem using semaphores:
if (dispatch_semaphore_wait(frameRenderingSemaphore, DISPATCH_TIME_NOW) == 0)
{
dispatch_async(openGLESContextQueue, ^{
[(EAGLView *)self.view setFramebuffer];
glClearColor(0.5f, 0.5f, 0.5f, 1.0f);
glClear(GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT);
glMatrixMode(GL_PROJECTION);
glLoadIdentity();
glMatrixMode(GL_MODELVIEW);
glLoadIdentity();
glTranslatef(0.0f, (GLfloat)(sinf(transY)/2.0f), 0.0f);
transY += 0.075f;
glVertexPointer(2, GL_FLOAT, 0, squareVertices);
glEnableClientState(GL_VERTEX_ARRAY);
glColorPointer(4, GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE, 0, squareColors);
glEnableClientState(GL_COLOR_ARRAY);
glDrawArrays(GL_TRIANGLE_STRIP, 0, 4);
[(EAGLView *)self.view presentFramebuffer];
dispatch_semaphore_signal(frameRenderingSemaphore);
});
}
I guess the dispatch queue was getting flooded without time to handle every opengl redraw. This way, it will only process one redraw at a time, asynchronously. Curiously, it has no side effects on the frame rate! :D
Thanks :)