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

[Paul Jakma]

On Wed, 4 May 2005, Sean Ryan wrote:

> 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.

You don't need to buy anything, man libumem.

libumem in leak-finding mode + mdb is excellent for finding memory 
leaks, better than valgrind (lower overhead at least).

regards,
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