On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 9:11 AM, Chris Packham <[email protected]> wrote: > > Is there a way to trigger a valgrind tool to generate its output > without the program exiting. I'm looking at memory consumption/leaks > in system daemons that don't normally exit. So after a certain period > in a test I'd like to have <insert tool of choice here> generate its > output so I can start looking at it but keep going so I can do it > again later. > > I vaguely recall being told that we are able to send a signal to cause > valgrind to trigger the tool to print its report. > > The tools I'm using are memcheck and massif with valgrind version > 3.3.1 (haven't got round to cross compiling 3.4.0 yet).
You can ask for a leak-check mid-execution. See VALGRIND_COUNT_LEAKS and VALGRIND_DO_LEAK_CHECK at http://www.valgrind.org/docs/manual/mc-manual.html#mc-manual.clientreqs Callgrind also has some mid-execution dump facilities. Massif doesn't, though. Nick ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Valgrind-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/valgrind-users
