On Mar 5, 2011, at 6:23 AM, Eygene Ryabinkin wrote: > Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 10:02:45PM -0600, Eric Anderson wrote: >> I have a moderately threaded userland program (all C) I am working >> on (using pthreads, freebsd 8.1 64bit). It seems to leak memory >> (using standard malloc/free) badly. I am using pcap to capture >> packets and process them. I have a handful of libs statically linked >> in (pcap is one, the rest don't seem to matter - I can remove them >> and still see the leak). >> >> Does anyone know of issues regarding malloc/free on multithreaded >> userland apps? > > I personally hadn't heard about them, but you can definitely run > your program under Valgrind's memcheck tool -- it often does the > good amount of work and detects many leaks. Valrgind is ported > to FreeBSD, devel/valgrind.
I tried valgrind from ports, however there were some missing syscalls and such, and when I went to fill them in, could not figure out which it was, and just could not make it fly. :( I also tried to make hoard work, but it seems to not be happy in ports on 64bit FreeBSD. Thanks! Eric _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
