On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 05:44:43PM -0500, Peter M. Jansson wrote: > I recently tried the Solaris malloc debugging facility, but the AOLserver > (running ACS) went from taking about 5 minutes to start up to taking over > 72 hours to start up. AOLserver uses so much dynamic memory that any
Way back when, I tried a trial license of Insure++ with AOLserver, and it was so slow as to be completely unusable. Purify on the other hand slows things down noticeably, but is very useful. > I think electric fence is not thread-safe, which is a problem that a lot > of the malloc debugging libraries have. Maybe that's why I couldn't make Electric Fence work with AOLserver, back when I tried 8 months or so ago. It seemed to be working but would find an "error" and halt AOLserver pretty much immediately, while it was still starting up. But then I got Purify, which AFAIK covers everything that Electric Fence can do, so I didn't worry about it. -- Andrew Piskorski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.piskorski.com
