On Jul 16, 2014, at 10:03 AM, Acácio Centeno <acacio.cent...@azion.com> wrote:
> Hello, > > One of our plugins is leaking memory and we can't find where. Do you guys > have any mechanism in place to help find where the problem is? > > I found an old doc about how to run under Valgrind, by compiling with > --disable-freelist, but even doing so I'm unable to run under Valgrind (on > CentOS 6) due to instructions it does not recognize. That's what I do to detect leaks, except that I typically run the leaks(1) command on OS X to find the leaks. https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/leaks.1.html I think that you can do something similar with tcmalloc: http://goog-perftools.sourceforge.net/doc/heap_checker.html > > We believe the problem could be on a TSIOBuffer, but we're certain that > we're calling TSIOBufferDestroy on it. Is there some condition under which > even calling this function would not release the buffer's memory? > > Also we're creating and deleting some objects using new / delete. Could > that be a problem? Sure, those objects could leak. > > Thanks, > Acácio Centeno > Software Engineering > Azion Technologies > Porto Alegre, Brasil +55 51 3012 3005 | +55 51 8118 9947 > Miami, USA +1 305 704 8816 > > Quaisquer informações contidas neste e-mail e anexos podem ser > confidenciais e privilegiadas, protegidas por sigilo legal. Qualquer forma > de utilização deste documento depende de autorização do emissor, sujeito as > penalidades cabíveis. > > Any information in this e-mail and attachments may be confidential and > privileged, protected by legal confidentiality. The use of this document > require authorization by the issuer, subject to penalties.
