Can you attach gdb when it does this, see where it's at, and maybe step
through the code a bit to see what it's doing?

On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 10:54 AM, Mahmood Naderan <[email protected]>wrote:

> That was a guess. As I said, i turned on the debugger to see when it
> start eating the memory. As you can see the last messageit print is:
> 339069000: system.cpu + A0 T0 : 0x852f93.0  :   MOV_R_I : limm   eax,
> 0x9 : IntAlu :  D=0x0000000000000009
> 339069500: system.cpu.icache: set be: moving blk 452f80 to MRU
> 339069500: system.cpu.icache: ReadReq (ifetch) 452f98 hit
>
> Then no message is printed and I see, with top command, that the
> memory usage gos up and up until it consumes all memory.
>
>
> On 4/27/12, Nilay Vaish <[email protected]> wrote:
> > How do you know the instruction at which the memory starts leaking? What
> > should we conclude from the instruction trace in your mail. I am unable
> to
> > arrive at any conclusion from the valgrind report that you had attached.
> > Apart from the info on uninitialized values, I did not find any useful
> > output produced by valgrind.
> >
> > --
> > Nilay
> >
> > On Fri, 27 Apr 2012, Mahmood Naderan wrote:
> >
> >> tonto with the test input uses about 4 GB and runs for about 2 seconds
> >> on a real machine.
> >>
> >> I also used the test input with gem5. However again after tick
> >> 300000000, all the 30GB memory is used and then gem5 is killed. The
> >> same behaviour with ref input...
> >>
> >> I ran the following command:
> >> valgrind --tool=memcheck --leak-check=full --track-origins=yes
> >> --suppressions=../util/valgrind-suppressions ../build/X86/m5.debug
> >> --debug-flags=Cache,ExecAll,Bus,CacheRepl,Context
> >> --trace-start=339050000 ../configs/example/se.py -c
> >> tonto_base.amd64-m64-gcc44-nn --cpu-type=detailed -F 5000000 --maxtick
> >> 10000000 --caches --l2cache --prog-interval=100000
> >>
> >>
> >> I also attach the report again. At the instruction that the memory
> >> leak begins, you can see:
> >> ...
> >> 339066000: system.cpu + A0 T0 : 0x83d48d    : call   0x15afe
> >> 339066000: system.cpu + A0 T0 : 0x83d48d.0  :   CALL_NEAR_I : limm
> >> t1, 0x15afe : IntAlu :  D=0x0000000000015afe
> >> 339066500: system.cpu + A0 T0 : 0x83d48d.1  :   CALL_NEAR_I : rdip
> >> t7, %ctrl153,  : IntAlu :  D=0x000000000083d492
> >> 339067000: system.cpu.dcache: set 9a: moving blk 5aa680 to MRU
> >> 339067000: system.cpu.dcache: WriteReq 5aa6b8 hit
> >> 339067000: system.cpu + A0 T0 : 0x83d48d.2  :   CALL_NEAR_I : st   t7,
> >> SS:[rsp + 0xfffffffffffffff8] : MemWrite :  D=0x000000000083d492
> >> A=0x7fffffffe6b8
> >> 339067500: system.cpu + A0 T0 : 0x83d48d.3  :   CALL_NEAR_I : subi
> >> rsp, rsp, 0x8 : IntAlu :  D=0x00007fffffffe6b8
> >> 339068000: system.cpu + A0 T0 : 0x83d48d.4  :   CALL_NEAR_I : wrip   ,
> >> t7, t1 : IntAlu :
> >> 339068500: system.cpu.icache: set be: moving blk 452f80 to MRU
> >> 339068500: system.cpu.icache: ReadReq (ifetch) 452f90 hit
> >> 339068500: system.cpu + A0 T0 : 0x852f90    : mov    r10, rcx
> >> 339068500: system.cpu + A0 T0 : 0x852f90.0  :   MOV_R_R : mov   r10,
> >> r10, rcx : IntAlu :  D=0x0000000000000022
> >> 339069000: system.cpu.icache: set be: moving blk 452f80 to MRU
> >> 339069000: system.cpu.icache: ReadReq (ifetch) 452f90 hit
> >> 339069000: system.cpu + A0 T0 : 0x852f93    : mov    eax, 0x9
> >> 339069000: system.cpu + A0 T0 : 0x852f93.0  :   MOV_R_I : limm   eax,
> >> 0x9 : IntAlu :  D=0x0000000000000009
> >> 339069500: system.cpu.icache: set be: moving blk 452f80 to MRU
> >> 339069500: system.cpu.icache: ReadReq (ifetch) 452f98 hit
> >>
> >>
> >> What is your opinion then?
> >> Regards,
> >>
> >> On 4/27/12, Steve Reinhardt <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>> Also, if you do run valgrind, use the util/valgrind-suppressions file
> to
> >>> suppress spurious reports.  Read the valgrind docs to see how this
> >>> works.
> >>>
> >>> Steve
> >>>
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