On May 18, 2010, at 2:51 PM, Leslie P. Polzer wrote:

> On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 10:22:32AM +0200, Jan Rychter wrote:
>> This could be difficult. It happens unpredictably, it could be months, days, 
>> or hours before the bug is triggered. The backtrace isn't always as clear as 
>> above, in fact sometimes I only see a "heap exhausted" message.
>> 
>> It is of course possible that I'm exhausting the heap in some runaway code — 
>> but if so, how do I track it down?
> 
> Does the backtrace always point at this spot, i.e. the pathname stuff?

No, I have several crash reports with no backtrace at all, just information
about the heap being exhausted. Which makes me think there might be something
that causes a runaway loop that allocates memory — but I don't know how to
go about catching that sort of thing.

--J.

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