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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