Re: [linux-audio-dev] Memory Debugger

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Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Memory Debugger
From: Tim Hockin (thockin_AT_hockin.org)
Date: Thu May 23 2002 - 00:30:18 EEST


> Electric Fence may cover a large portion of what Purify does. I have used
> it a number of times and I found it very effective.
>
> Search http://freshmeat.net for it or if you use Debian:
>
> apt-get install electric-fence

efence is necessary but not sufficient. You may also try ccmalloc. It
does good stuff too. I don't know if efence and ccmalloc can be run
TOGETHER, but when I have serious memory-using programs, I have a make
target for each efence and ccmalloc.

Tim


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