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Old 06-20-2007
Find memory leaks shell script ???
Hi all,

Has anyone out there a shell script to detect memory leaks on unix machines?

And if so what way did they go about it .?
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Old 06-20-2007
What platform/OS are you asking about?
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Old 06-20-2007
Mainly solaris and HP ( 64 bit )
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Old 06-20-2007
Memory leaks where ? In your application or memory leaks in the kernel ? The kernel ones are hard to catch.

As such there is not shell script which detects memory leaks. You would have to constantly monitor the output of pmap -d, ps -elf listing et al. You need to be careful at the numbers you are looking.

Use valgrind, efence, dmalloc among the various tools available. For me, valgrind has been quite helpful.
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Old 06-20-2007
The memory leaks would be in the applications that are written local .
I want a shell script to detect the memory leaks ... rather than manual using a third party tool .
Last edited by nano2; 06-20-2007 at 12:56 PM..
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Old 06-20-2007
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Originally Posted by nano2
The memory leaks would be in the applications that are written local .
I want a shell script to detect the memory leaks ... rather than manual using a third party tool .
Has anyone any idea , i was going to use prstat - but thats not effecient ??????
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