On Wed, 2013-11-27 at 17:05 +0100, Benjamin Schindler wrote: > Hmm > Unfortunatelly, I moved from Vienna to Zurich now and I don't have > access to the machine which showed this behavior. I just tried to > reproduce it on my gentoo box but there, it just worked fine. So I think > it has likely something to do with dependent libs. After all, > backporting an unstable debian package to stable is considered risky... If by dependent libs, you mean libs that are linked with helgrind, that cannot be the case, as the valgrind tools do not use any lib (even not glibc).
So, still a mystery at this moment Philippe > > Regards > Benjamin > > On 19.11.2013 21:30, Philippe Waroquiers wrote: > > On Tue, 2013-11-19 at 11:20 +0100, Benjamin Schindler wrote: > >> I did start with --profile-heap, and it gave me the following (before I > >> killed it). The bottom-most entry was growing really fast. The other > >> entries seemed to stay more or less contact. Attached for reference is a > >> complete run ( I snipped a few outputs because the mailing list doesn't > >> like messages over 40k) > >> I think the likelyhood of my app being faulty is rather small. It runs > >> all fine using memcheck and standalone as well as in drd (it does show a > >> few possible races) > > Effectively, it is very likely that this is a change in 3.9.0 which > > causes the increase of memory in 'libhb.zsm_init.1 (map_shmem)'. > > > > Do you have a (small) reproducer for this problem ? > > Without that, it looks difficult to track down. > > > > I quickly diff-ed helgrind 3.8 and 3.9, but could not find a > > good candidate for this memory increase. > > > > Without a small reproducer, I guess the best way will be to isolate > > the commit by doing a dichotomic search between the 3.8 and 3.9 release. > > > > Philippe > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rapidly troubleshoot problems before they affect your business. Most IT organizations don't have a clear picture of how application performance affects their revenue. With AppDynamics, you get 100% visibility into your Java,.NET, & PHP application. Start your 15-day FREE TRIAL of AppDynamics Pro! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=84349351&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Valgrind-users mailing list Valgrind-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/valgrind-users
