How to find memory leak in solaris?


 
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Old 07-18-2008
Question How to find memory leak in solaris?

please tell me how to use rational purify or any other method to find memory leak Smilie
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Old 07-18-2008
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Old 07-19-2008
dbx, dtrace, truss, xxd, and elvis are very useful
Have a look at /usr/ucb/ps -aux. This will give you a list of processes and what percentage of the memory they are using.
You can also sort by VSZ size :
# ps -ef -o vsz,pid,args | sort -n
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