Re: Possible serious bug in glibc, assistance needed
On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 01:47:53AM +0100, Mathrick wrote:
> Any ideas what I should be looking for? Also, it tends to happen mostly
> on occasions when it's hard to hook strace, like swapping a lot on
> session start, or randomly during usage. Some practical tips would help
> a lot, I'm not too fond of possibly running strace for several hours.
No idea. strace to a logfile works fine for hours; I've run daemons
that way. Look for whether it's constantly mapping more memory via brk
or mmap and not releasing it, I guess.
> Also a question: are you running gDesklets w/o trouble? They expose the
> problem a lot, maybe it would be possible to use them as testcase.
Don't even know what they are :P
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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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