[Kamailio-Users] Understanding memory-leaks by inspecting PKG/SHM memory status at shutdown

[Iñaki Baz Castillo]

2010/4/8 Daniel-Constantin Mierla <miconda at gmail.com>:
> it does not look as a dump with memory debugging on.

SOrry, I just applied "MEMDBG=1" in one of the servers and got the
output in the other.


> When memdbg is on, you should get something like:
>
>    0(17665)       1. N  address=0xb5ab2440 frag=0xb5ab2428 size=4 used=1
>    0(17665)             alloc'd from timer.c: init_timer(52)
>
> Notice the "alloc'd ...' line which specifies the place where the memory was
> allocated.
>
> A leak is signaled by many occurrences of allocation from same place
> (skipping the part of allocation done for config parsing and module
> initialization which happen only one, at startup).


Thanks a lot, understood now. I will check it periodically.


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Iñaki Baz Castillo
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