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Date:      Fri, 16 May 2003 09:59:21 -0300 (ART)
From:      Fernando Gleiser <fgleiser@cactus.fi.uba.ar>
To:        "Vest.Michael" <Michael.Vest@IGT.com>
Cc:        "'questions@FreeBSD.org'" <questions@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: How to detect memory leaks
Message-ID:  <20030516095423.K1361-100000@cactus.fi.uba.ar>
In-Reply-To: <013380D4A048F74D9FF6F3C17933C43302CF73DF@mufasa.awii.com>

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On Thu, 15 May 2003, Vest.Michael wrote:

> Dear FreeBSD,
>
>      Do you know how to detect memory leaks in applications running on
> FreeBSD?
>      We have an application written in C that is running on FreeBSD 3.4 and
> 4.5. We
> suspect that there are some memory leaks in the application, but are unsure
> how to
> track them down. Do you know of any tools or procedures that we can use to
> determine
> where the leaks are?

You can try Electric Fence (devel/ElectricFence). It's a malloc() debugger



			Fer



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