From: "Cliff Woolley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 11:08 AM
> On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Sunitha Kumar wrote: > > > And, what are the tools that people have used for tracking leaks, > > Efence, zmalloc, dmalloc, purify? > > Various people have used at least efence and purify, maybe others. But > the whole point of the pools system is that it's very unlikely to get true > memory leaks. Sometimes we have a resource (file handle, socket, etc) > live longer than we wanted, and we consider that a leak, but you won't > find that kind of thing with efence and I doubt you'd find it with purify > or any of the others either. Use NuMega's tools here (SoftIce, etc) ... it's rather funny when Apache fails to leave any dangling resources, and yet you uncover a dozen odd bugs in the clib (MS's msvcrt in my case.) Proves Apache is a rather useful clib stress test ;) Bill
