On Sat, May 22, 2004 at 10:30:42PM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote: > Any suggestions for leak detectors that work in real-time or in > response to some external signal? In a threaded application would be > ideal. > > I've hacked malloc to add the stack traceback to the utrace info > that's output by malloc. However, for applications that run for days, > and tend to allocate and free a lot of memory, you gotta have lots of > local storage. The restrictions in the kernel that requires this to > be a real file makes it harder. > > Also, there's a difference between what's in use and what is leaking..
Try boehm-gc; I run the following local patch to the ports to fix a few things and let me enable compile options from the ports infrastructure. You can call the detector at any time to see if any leaks have occurred made. <URL:http://green.homeunix.org/~green/boehm-gc.diffs> -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \'[ FreeBSD ]''''''''''\ <> [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ The Power to Serve! \ Opinions expressed are my own. \,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,\ _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
