Jean Philippe Le Roy [jean-philippe.leroy@st.com]
Stuart Little [Stuart.Little@dpcs-sw.co.uk]
Kevin Inscoe [kevin.inscoe@cbis.com]
Kevin Sheehan [Kevin.Sheehan@uniq.com.au]
Original question: I'm trying to track down memory
leaks in my processes, and I read that
the way to do so is to look at the SZ field when you
do a "ps -elf". Is there any other way? Also, can
anyone tell me what the equivalent fieldname for the
SZ field would be using proctool?
Recommendations/Solutions:
Try Purity - a commercial tool for stuff you can
compile yourself from www.pureatria.com, but that
costs..
I would use /usr/ucb/ps -auxw. /usr/ucb/ps show SZ as
total process size and RSS as resident set size
(core) which is more acurate then what /usr/bin/ps
shows. It shows SZ including swap allocation as well
which is misleading.
Size?? Even better - you can take a look at the
memory map. The heap is where malloc() gets its
memory. Also, GNU malloc has a trace faciity. You
can use that to see mismatches.
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Ju
julienlim@rocketmail.com
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