I am investigating a memory problem (access to memory that was
released previously) that Purify can't analyze.

As I don't know the program I am analyzing, I thought I could generate
a big trace of all function calls and search through it.

 The resulting file might be way too big though : I did a trace with
all malloc and free calls and it already takes 155MB. But on the other
hand, if malloc and free represent 1% of all calls I will get a 15GB
trace file which is not that much (I have filled 120GB hard drives
with Linux Trace Toolkit traces and the result was helpful).

 Thanks,

  Pierre-Olivier




On Nov 7, 2007 1:28 PM, Michael Schuster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Pierre-Olivier Gaillard wrote:
> > Thanks a lot. That sounds helpful.
> > How many probes can I have (on a Sparc)?
> > Would a couple millions be OK?
>
> I can't answer that specific question, but I am wondering what you're
> trying to achieve with the amount of data these probes potentially accumulate.
>
> Michael
> --
> Michael Schuster
> Recursion, n.: see 'Recursion'
>
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