tom fogal wrote: > [email protected] writes: > >> I am using valgrind 3.4.1 to try to find a memory leak. My >> program has an initial routine which allocates a lot of memory - >> around 1 GB. When I run the program by itself it runs fine, however >> when I run it under valgrind, one of the many malloc calls in >> the initial routine fails. >> >> Does anyone know why this would happen? There is plenty of memory >> on the machine (64 GB). >> > > How much is valgrind's over heads? IIRC, it's a little over 1.125 bytes per byte allocated by the program.
Could it be they exceed the system's free memory? Is there anything logged to syslog about this. Col. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ Valgrind-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/valgrind-users
