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Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2002 16:10:06 -0800
From: Chuck Tuffli <chuck_tuffli@agilent.com>
To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: vmstat to detect memory leaks?
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I'm developing a loadable module and was wondering if I can use the
output of vmstat to figure out if there is memory leak over the course
of some testing. For example,

#!/bin/sh
vmstat > before
kldload mymodule.ko
./run_tests.sh
kldunload mymodule
vmstat > after
./compare_free.sh before after

Tnx!

-- 
Chuck Tuffli    <chuck_tuffli AT agilent DOT com>
Agilent Technologies, Storage and Networking

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