Peter Novodvorsky wrote: > Hi, > > I've tried valgrind's memcheck (http://www.valgrind.org/) with harmony > VM and it helped me to find several memory leaks in thread manager > that won't find without it. I thought that it would be useful for > other developers to use it. I used the following options: > > valgrind --leak-check=full --leak-resolution=high --show-reachable=yes > --gen-suppressions=all --error-limit=no --trace-children=yes <your > java launcher> <java launcher parameters> > > This will also generate suppresion scripts. You can collect them and > create suppresion file that will help to filter out false positive > bugs from valgrind report. > > I haven't used thread checker, cache checker and callgrind from > valgrind suite, so if anyone has positive results with it, please > report. > > I propose using valgrind in regression tests.
Cool, you may want to consider sharing your suppression scripts (via JIRA) for here [1] where we have similar files for other analysis tools. [1] http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/harmony/standard/tools/ Regards, Tim
