Hi all: I'm debugging my own AgentX subagent on Windows XP under Visual Studio 2005, and, I always get a number of memory leaks reported on shutdown.
I normally develop with memory leak detection turned on, so that I quickly find out about any new leaks I might have just introduced in the code. This strategy does not work for Net-SNMP, and it looks like it's by design, this is what I found on your Web site: http://www.net-snmp.org/wiki/index.php/Debugger Section "Valgrind / Memory Leaks" ------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------ Note, however, that Net-SNMP relies on the operating system to cleanup memory when an application exits, so there will be lots of un-released memory when the application exits. Please don't report this as a bug. We are only interested in memory leaks that grow over time. ... Note that since some memory leaks may be reported anyway just from initialization allocations that were never cleaned up, the best way to check for memory leaks in your mib-module code is to run valgrind twice. In the first run, perform a single snmpget or snmpwalk on your MIB implemenatation. The next time, perform 1000 of the same task. Then compare the two runs and if the memory usage is different for some section of code (by a factor of 1000) then you've definitely found a leak. ------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------ I find the the suggested leak-debugging procedure cumbersome and error-prone. It would be nice if all malloc'ed memory were free'd on shutdown. I guess that would be inside snmp_shutdown(), or maybe I'm just missing some clean-up call somewhere. Many thanks, Ruben ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Apps built with the Adobe(R) Flex(R) framework and Flex Builder(TM) are powering Web 2.0 with engaging, cross-platform capabilities. Quickly and easily build your RIAs with Flex Builder, the Eclipse(TM)based development software that enables intelligent coding and step-through debugging. Download the free 60 day trial. http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-adobe-com _______________________________________________ Net-snmp-coders mailing list Net-snmp-coders@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/net-snmp-coders
