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Date:      Fri, 19 Jan 2007 12:34:00 -0800
From:      Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
To:        Roger Olofsson <raggen@passagen.se>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How to catch a memory leak?
Message-ID:  <FCF35B75-BE63-40F4-9773-CBA215ECDE0F@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <45B12364.903@passagen.se>
References:  <45B12364.903@passagen.se>

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On Jan 19, 2007, at 12:00 PM, Roger Olofsson wrote:
> The application vlc (found in ports) when run on FBSD 5.x and 6.x  
> behaves as if there's a memory leak somewhere hidden in it.
[ ... ]
> My question is how do I track down a possible memory leak and would  
> there be a tool to monitor (from outside the application) what  
> process that allocates memory and how much?

Consider something like the valgrind port or dlmalloc.

-- 
-Chuck




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