[indiana-discuss] [perf-discuss] Memory leak somewhere, maybe in libc (libc_hwcap2.so.1 / SXCE b105 x64) ?

[Martin Bochnig]

On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 4:47 AM, Bart Smaalders <bart.smaalders at sun.com> wrote:
> Martin Bochnig wrote:
>>
>> Both my version of wget shall have a bug and my version of top?
>> Seriously, how likely is this?
>> Isn't it more likely that there is a problem in a shared library that
>> both happen to use?
>
> If this is reproducible, could you employ libumem to get an idea of
> where the leaks are occuring?
>
> % export UMEM_DEBUG=default
> % LD_PRELOAD=libumem.so.1 wget  .....
>
>
> after a while, use gcore $WGETPID to generate a core from another
> window.  Attach mdb and run ::findleaks:

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Ok, I pkill -9 all wget's and restart them with the method above. If
the problem prooves to be re-producable (which we shall see after a
few days), I report the results in reply-all to this thread.

Thanks to all who have responded / helped so far.


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Martin Bochnig
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SCSecA, TOEFL