On Friday 05 November 2004 12:37, Silvan Villiger wrote: > My goal is to write a script to monitor the memory-usage of a program > and to detect memory-leaks using the ps-command. How would you detect > memory leaks with it?
You wouldn't. A memory leak, in a nutshell, is a call to malloc() without a corresponding call to free() sometime afterward. It'd be approximately impossible to deterministically tell from the outside whether a program is truly leaking memory, or whether it was simply delaying the free() call until some later time. If have access to the program's internals, you can probably get a much more accurate answer. -- Kirk Strauser
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