On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 04:16:16PM -0500, Greg Copeland wrote: > I've started playing a little with Postgres to determine if there were > memory leaks running around. After some very brief checking, I'm > starting[1] to think that the answer is yes. Has anyone already gone > through a significant effort to locate and eradicate memory leaks? Is > this done periodically? If so, what tools are others using? I'm > currently using dmalloc for my curiosity.
valgrind is a great tool I used -- didn't get the time to try it out on Postgres yet, though. Besides leaks, it also catches uninitialized variable access and stuff like that. Petru ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
