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Subject: Mem leak : malloc/free + pthreads = leakage?
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Hi all,

I have a moderately threaded userland program (all C) I am working on =
(using pthreads, freebsd 8.1 64bit).  It seems to leak memory (using =
standard malloc/free) badly.  I am using pcap to capture packets and =
process them. I have a handful of libs statically linked in (pcap is =
one, the rest don't seem to matter - I can remove them and still see the =
leak). =20

Does anyone know of issues regarding malloc/free on multithreaded =
userland apps? =20

Sorry, I can't post the code..

Thanks!
Eric