Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 09:49:52 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Debugging memory leak Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0111080948450.76499-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.4.21.0111081058270.3920-100000@onyx>
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add your own malloc types (several). and then use them. vmstat -m should show you which of your types are leaking. On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, Zhihui Zhang wrote: > > I am debugging a KLD. After each run, there is always some memory in use > as indicated by vmstat -m. In other words, some memory are still in use by > the KLD. Is there any way to detect the memory leak? > > After I do kldunload, all memory used by it is gone. But I doubt that the > memory is actually returned to the global pool. Probably, it is only the > statistical information is gone. > > Any help or suggestion is appreciated. > > -Zhihui > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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