[Pdns-dev] Re: memory leak

[bert hubert]

On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 04:55:21PM +0100, Norbert Sendetzky wrote:
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> Hi Bert
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> I'm trying to hunt down a nasty memory leak - with little success up 
> to now. Each time an exception is thrown from a backend and the 
> backend is recreated by the guardian, 2048 bytes are added to the 
> memory used by the instances.

Have you tried valgrind? You need to make powerdns do a clean exit and
valgrind will tell you where all the memory leaks are. Works ver very very
well.


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