From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 15 17:33:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from karon.dynas.se (karon.dynas.se [192.71.43.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5E2C337B69F for ; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 17:33:06 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 44412 invoked from network); 16 Jan 2001 01:33:04 -0000 Received: from spirit.sto.dynas.se (HELO spirit.dynas.se) (172.16.1.10) by karon.sto.dynas.se with SMTP; 16 Jan 2001 01:33:04 -0000 Received: (qmail 11780 invoked from network); 16 Jan 2001 01:33:04 -0000 Received: from explorer.rsa.com (10.81.217.59) by spirit.dynas.se with SMTP; 16 Jan 2001 01:33:04 -0000 Received: (from mikko@localhost) by explorer.rsa.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f0G1Wxh41577; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 17:32:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mikko) Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 17:32:59 -0800 (PST) From: Mikko Tyolajarvi Message-Id: <200101160132.f0G1Wxh41577@explorer.rsa.com> To: dpk@dpk.net Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: memory leak detectors? Newsgroups: local.freebsd.questions References: <20010115164806.U12858@dpk.net> X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.6 (NOV) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In local.freebsd.questions you write: >Is there any memory leak detection software available for FreeBSD? I'm trying >to track down a very nasty leak in MySQL 3.22.32, caught one (if you're >curious, it was not freeing "tmp_table2" - search for it in the source) but >it wasn't the biggest one. I'm looking for either commercial or non-commercial >software, although this is for a commercial venture. ('course, depending on >program costs, results might be freely distributed as well) If money is no object at all, get hold of a SPARC running Solaris and install Purify... :-) Other than that, I have had some success with the "Dmalloc" library in /usr/ports/devel/dmalloc. $.02, /Mikko -- Mikko Työläjärvi_______________________________________mikko@rsasecurity.com RSA Security To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message