ok, this sounds interesting, but i have almost 0 experience with forking and stuff under linux. The threaded nslookup stuff came from a snippet i downloaded (yes, occasionally i use snippets, esp. when it goes over my head) Could you show me some snippet, or tell me how to do this? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chad Simmons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "JF Bethlehem" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, May 13, 2002 10:00 PM Subject: Re: memory leaks
> > --- JF Bethlehem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm looking for a little program that will help me debug the mud, and remove > > several > > memory leaks i know are in there. I use gdb to debug the mud, *but* ever > > since i > > installed a threaded DNS lookup thing, core files aren't produced anymore, > > any > > idea how i can fix this? having to wait for a crash, which could occur once > > every.... > > 15 hours or so, is kinda tiresome. > > > > One thing you can do is ditch the whole "threaded" DNS lookup. Instead just > fork the mud when it boots up using socketpair or a pipe to communicate between > the two. Then you can have one processes handle nameserver requests without > having to worry about threading. This will ensure that you still get a core > file when something crashes, and you can still debug. > > ~Kender > > ===== > -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- > Version 3.1 > GCS/L/C/O d-(+) s++:+ a-- C+++$>++++ UBLS++++$ > P+++(--)$ L++>+++ E--- W+>++$ N !o K? w(--) !O > M- !V PS+ PE(++) Y+ PGP->+ t- 5 X+() R(+) tv+@ > b++(+++) !DI+++ D G(-) e>+++$ h---() r+++ y+++ > ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! Music Experience > http://launch.yahoo.com >
