Is your application multithreaded? Thread scheduling under valgrind is very different from running normally. AFAIK, only one thread runs at a time, which can both slow down threaded applications substantially and also increase the chances of hitting a deadlock bug in your code.
-Dave On Jul 13, 2010, at 2:54 PM CDT, Nicolas Rannou wrote: > Hello, > > I'm experimenting some issues using valgrind. > > I would like to perform a memory leaks checking in my application. > I do: > _________________________________________________________________ > > $ valgrind -v --leak-check=full --track-origins=yes ./bin/gofigure &> > log.txt > __________________________________________________________________ > > where ./bin/gofigure is my application, STATIC-DEBUG build, on ubuntu > 10.04 - 64 bits. > > If I launch this command, it will just get stuck and I have to exit > valgrind manually (I let it running for one night to make sure that it > is not a time issue). > If I run the program without valgrind it works properly (it opens and > closes automatically). > > I'm using valgrind 3.6.0 > _____________________ > > $ valgrind --version > valgrind-3.6.0.SVN > _____________________ > > It use to work with a previous version of valgrind and a previous > version of ubuntu... (I'm not sure about which ones) > > Did somebody already experienced this issue? > Do you have any suggestion about how to solve/track this issue? > > Thanks, > > Nicolas > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint > What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? > Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first > _______________________________________________ > Valgrind-users mailing list > Valgrind-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/valgrind-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ Valgrind-users mailing list Valgrind-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/valgrind-users
