Re: Potential memory leaks reported by Valgrind against some frequently used commands

2011-03-02 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 08:38:42PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 03/01/2011 06:19 AM, ximalaya wrote: Hi all, [snip] BTW, I ever tried on Redhat Linux 9, no such problem. This is the interesting part. Is RH keeping their patches, or are upstream and other distros just not determining

Potential memory leaks reported by Valgrind against some frequently used commands

2011-03-01 Thread ximalaya
Hi, As you may have known, valgrind is a powerful and easy to use tool that can be used to detect many memory management issues on Linux. Details regarding valgrind can be seen here, http://valgrind.org I notice that, valgrind reports memory leaks against some frequently used commands on

Re: Potential memory leaks reported by Valgrind against some frequently used commands

2011-03-01 Thread Olaf van der Spek
2011/3/1 ximalaya im...@126.com: I notice that, valgrind reports memory leaks against some frequently used commands on Debian 6.0, 5.0.7 and 4.0. These commands include netstat, ps -ef, ls -latr, top, etc. For short-running processes that's generally not a problem. -- Olaf -- To

Re: Potential memory leaks reported by Valgrind against some frequently used commands

2011-03-01 Thread Aron Xu
On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 19:54, Olaf van der Spek olafvds...@gmail.com wrote: 2011/3/1 ximalaya im...@126.com: I notice that, valgrind reports memory leaks against some frequently used commands on Debian 6.0, 5.0.7 and 4.0. These commands include netstat, ps -ef, ls -latr, top, etc. For

Re: Potential memory leaks reported by Valgrind against some frequently used commands

2011-03-01 Thread Michael Tokarev
01.03.2011 14:56, Aron Xu wrote: On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 19:54, Olaf van der Spek olafvds...@gmail.com wrote: 2011/3/1 ximalaya im...@126.com: I notice that, valgrind reports memory leaks against some frequently used commands on Debian 6.0, 5.0.7 and 4.0. These commands include netstat, ps

Potential memory leaks reported by Valgrind against some frequently used commands

2011-03-01 Thread ximalaya
Hi, As you may have known, valgrind is a powerful and easy to use tool that can be used to detect many memory management issues on Linux. Details regarding valgrind can be seen here, http://valgrind.org I notice that, valgrind reports memory leaks against some frequently used commands of

Re:Re:Re: Potential memory leaks reported by Valgrind against some frequently used commands

2011-03-01 Thread ximalaya
Agree with you all. For process that will terminate anyway, this may be not a problem really. While if there is any problem with the underlying libraries, it is worth looking into... At 2011-03-01 20:19:39,ximalaya im...@126.com wrote: Hi all, It's a surprise that you replied this email so

Re:Re: Potential memory leaks reported by Valgrind against some frequently used commands

2011-03-01 Thread ximalaya
Hi all, It's a surprise that you replied this email so quickly. Thanks for your timely comments! Several days ago, I ever posted to debian-u...@lists.debian.org, but got no response. BTW, I ever tried on Redhat Linux 9, no such problem. Thanks, Xmly At 2011-03-01 20:04:16,Michael Tokarev

Re: Potential memory leaks reported by Valgrind against some frequently used commands

2011-03-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On 03/01/2011 06:19 AM, ximalaya wrote: Hi all, [snip] BTW, I ever tried on Redhat Linux 9, no such problem. This is the interesting part. Is RH keeping their patches, or are upstream and other distros just not determining them worthwhile? -- I prefer banana-flavored energy bars made

Re: Potential memory leaks reported by Valgrind against some frequently used commands

2011-03-01 Thread sean finney
On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 08:38:42PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 03/01/2011 06:19 AM, ximalaya wrote: BTW, I ever tried on Redhat Linux 9, no such problem. This is the interesting part. Is RH keeping their patches, or are upstream and other distros just not determining them worthwhile?

Re: Potential memory leaks reported by Valgrind against some frequently used commands

2011-03-01 Thread Adrian von Bidder
Hi! On Wednesday 02 March 2011 03.38:42 Ron Johnson wrote: On 03/01/2011 06:19 AM, ximalaya wrote: Hi all, [snip] BTW, I ever tried on Redhat Linux 9, no such problem. This is the interesting part. Is RH keeping their patches, or are upstream and other distros just not determining