From: Leonid Kalev <lion@odcnet.com>
To: Rahul Karnik <rahul@genebrew.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Tracking down leaking applications
Date: Sun, 09 Apr 2006 23:37:46 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4439FD3A.9060305@odcnet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b29067a0604090842h3bb11a88re9c175a467763c9f@mail.gmail.com>
Rahul Karnik wrote:
>
>The process killed has been either httpd or cronolog so far. For now,
>I have upgraded to FC4's 2.6.16-1_1069 and added some swap, where
>previously there was none.
>
>Is there a way to:
>- confirm that it is a userspace and not a kernel issue?
>- track down the application that is leaking memory?
>
>
This seems a bit off-topic for LKML, because you should *always* check
user-space for memory leaks before blaming the kernel. A few things that
can help you with your questions:
- the 'ps' utility, to see who eats the memory
- valgrind - an excellent tool for tracking down memory leaks (and other
bugs, too). Comes with Fedora, but check the Web for a newer version.
Regards,
Leo.
>Thanks for the help,
>Rahul
>--
>Rahul Karnik
>rahul@genebrew.com
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-10 6:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-09 15:42 Rahul Karnik
2006-04-10 6:37 ` Leonid Kalev [this message]
2006-04-13 14:12 ` Rahul Karnik
2006-04-13 10:30 ` Alan Cox
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