Re: How to catch a memory leak?

2007-01-19 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 19, 2007, at 12:00 PM, Roger Olofsson wrote: The application vlc (found in ports) when run on FBSD 5.x and 6.x behaves as if there's a memory leak somewhere hidden in it. [ ... ] My question is how do I track down a possible memory leak and would there be a tool to monitor (from outsid

How to catch a memory leak?

2007-01-19 Thread Roger Olofsson
Dear Mailing List, The application vlc (found in ports) when run on FBSD 5.x and 6.x behaves as if there's a memory leak somewhere hidden in it. This is appearing when starting vlc from shell playing a playlist and streaming video over udp to LAN like so: vlc --loop playlist.m3u --sout '#tr