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Check for environment variable differences when the app is run remotely. You could be loading the wrong shared object because of a different environment, for example. You might also be running into resource limits on the remote invocation, such as max memory usage.
Can you get a stack trace from a core file? If so, what is the app trying to do when it SEGVs? If you can get a stack trace, can you get a memory map? Where is the code being executed from? What shared library or executable?
Intermittent SEGVs can be tremendously hard to track down. Heap corruption from buffer overflows - the most common cause of intermittent SEGVs - tends to appear almost random at times because of the way heap memory tends to work. (Because of hardware alignment requirements, heap memory from "malloc()/calloc()/etc" and/or "new" tends to be parceled out in 8-byte blocks. So if you malloc() a 25-byte buffer, on most of today's hardware you really get 32 bytes...)
Are you responsible for developing this application? If so, have you ever tried something like
Purify? Go look at the cost of that tool, then calculate how much time you've already spent trying to run down this ONE problem...
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MALLOC(3) Linux Programmer's Manual MALLOC(3)
NAME
calloc, malloc, free, realloc - Allocate and free dynamic memory
SYNOPSIS
#include <stdlib.h>
void *calloc(size_t nmemb, size_t size);
void *malloc(size_t size);
void free(void *ptr);
void *realloc(void *ptr, size_t size);
DESCRIPTION
calloc() allocates memory for an array of nmemb elements of size bytes each and returns a pointer to the allocated memory. The memory is
set to zero.
malloc() allocates size bytes and returns a pointer to the allocated memory. The memory is not cleared.
free() frees the memory space pointed to by ptr, which must have been returned by a previous call to malloc(), calloc() or realloc(). Oth-
erwise, or if free(ptr) has already been called before, undefined behaviour occurs. If ptr is NULL, no operation is performed.
realloc() changes the size of the memory block pointed to by ptr to size bytes. The contents will be unchanged to the minimum of the old
and new sizes; newly allocated memory will be uninitialized. If ptr is NULL, the call is equivalent to malloc(size); if size is equal to
zero, the call is equivalent to free(ptr). Unless ptr is NULL, it must have been returned by an earlier call to malloc(), calloc() or
realloc().
RETURN VALUE
For calloc() and malloc(), the value returned is a pointer to the allocated memory, which is suitably aligned for any kind of variable, or
NULL if the request fails.
free() returns no value.
realloc() returns a pointer to the newly allocated memory, which is suitably aligned for any kind of variable and may be different from
ptr, or NULL if the request fails. If size was equal to 0, either NULL or a pointer suitable to be passed to free() is returned. If real-
loc() fails the original block is left untouched - it is not freed or moved.
CONFORMING TO
ANSI-C
SEE ALSO
brk(2), posix_memalign(3)
NOTES
The Unix98 standard requires malloc(), calloc(), and realloc() to set errno to ENOMEM upon failure. Glibc assumes that this is done (and
the glibc versions of these routines do this); if you use a private malloc implementation that does not set errno, then certain library
routines may fail without having a reason in errno.
Crashes in malloc(), free() or realloc() are almost always related to heap corruption, such as overflowing an allocated chunk or freeing
the same pointer twice.
Recent versions of Linux libc (later than 5.4.23) and GNU libc (2.x) include a malloc implementation which is tunable via environment vari-
ables. When MALLOC_CHECK_ is set, a special (less efficient) implementation is used which is designed to be tolerant against simple
errors, such as double calls of free() with the same argument, or overruns of a single byte (off-by-one bugs). Not all such errors can be
protected against, however, and memory leaks can result. If MALLOC_CHECK_ is set to 0, any detected heap corruption is silently ignored;
if set to 1, a diagnostic is printed on stderr; if set to 2, abort() is called immediately. This can be useful because otherwise a crash
may happen much later, and the true cause for the problem is then very hard to track down.
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ory really is available. In case it turns out that the system is out of memory, one or more processes will be killed by the infamous OOM
killer.
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1993-04-04 MALLOC(3)