[ILUG] [OT] Looking for recommendations for solaris memory checker

[Sean Ryan]

Hey gang,

I figure someone hear will have some expertise on this topic ?

I've been tasked with tracking down a substantial memory leak in a large
c++ / python (via SWIG ) application.  To add a little more spice there
is a likely to be heap corruption also.

Essentially I'm looking for opinions on commercial or open source memory
checker.  It should support the following :

- run time detection / reporting of memory leak, heap corruption etc.
The application is fairly large so shutting downing is time consuming 

- support for dynamic shared object linking - basically dlopen / dlsym

- Ability to pinpoint to source file / line where leak occurred.


I've already tried the following with no real success yet.

mpatrol - dreadfully slow, has no real time support (i.e. I must
shutdown the application before it reports heap growth, corruption etc)

dmalloc - does not have fantastic support for shared objects or c++ name
unmangling (strangely addr2line does not resolve addresses to source
code locations even though symbols are absolutely built in) 

I do have an old version of purify lying around here somewhere but I'm
dammed if I can figure it out - any decent tutorials around anywhere.


Thanks in advance,
Cheers folks,
Sean