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- From: bandy@netnews.jhuapl.edu (Mike Bandy)
- Subject: Re: Help me track down memory leakage
- Message-ID: <BxvDB0.4DF@netnews.jhuapl.edu>
- Organization: JHU/Applied Physics Laboratory
- References: <BxuLIr.DK@rice.edu>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 16:47:23 GMT
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- abuhr@owlnet.rice.edu (Aaron M. Buhr) writes:
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- > I've inherited a very large C program that I am trying to maintain and
- >expand, and I've come to the point where I HAVE to find out where the
- >program's leaking memory. The program starts out with about 7MB virtual
- >mem usage, 6MB real, and grows over the course of 6-8 hours to around 20MB
- >virtual, 10MB real. The program uses straight malloc() and realloc() calls.
- >I don't know where or how to start trying to track this down. Any help
- >would be greatly appreciated. Email is preferred, but I'll try to watch
- >the posts to this group as well. Much thanks in advance.
-
- You need to give us a little more info -- specifically, what operating sytem?
- If it's VMS I can get you started, if it's something else, I'd just be
- wasting everybody's bandwidth...
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- Mike Bandy
- bandy@aplcomm.jhuapl.edu
- Johns Hopkins University / Applied Physics Lab
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