Re: Prob. with memprof (was: Re: top tells me X is using 80 Mb!)
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 01:02:22AM -0200, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote:
>
> Ok, so I tried to run memproof on gnapster, and nothing happened...
>
> Also tried gcalc, gnome-terminal, gtkcookie, gtkfind, gtkgraph, and
> same thing: nothing happened (as if the program had been started, but
> quit immediately).
>
> Sme for xosview, xfig...
>
> But it did work with wterm.
>
> So... IS there some other application I could use to find memory
> leaks, other than memprof?
>
> Memprof sems to be totally undocumented, and I tried several of the
> command line options, none of which worked...
>
> Thanks,
> J.
Well, there are other ways, but it often involves recompiling. That'd
probably have to be done anyway in order to track where exactly a leak
was coming from. Go ahead and post a bug. The worst that could happen
is you'll annoy some developer. Just be cordial about how you phrase
it, and describe exactly how you described the problem before.
--
Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>
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