Hia,
On Tue, 13 Aug 1996, JT Rhone wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Aug 1996, Hades wrote:
>
> > > There is a program called dmalloc that does about the same. It can
> > > tell you where memory was allocated that wasn't freed after the
> > > program was shutdown (source file and line number). It's fairly easy
> > > to trace large leaks this way.
> > >
> > In the INSTALL file it says to link the dmalloc library to my program, but
> > gives no instructions on how to do this. Anyone out there offer a little
> > advice?
>
> PLEASE :) somebody who has successfully linked this library into your mud
> give some insight on how to do so. I've been fiddling with it for about
> 4 or 5 hours now to no avail, but it seems as if it's exactly the thing I
> am looking for.
I'm currently tracing all memory leaks in our mud with this lib.
1. First of all get the distribution. Configure and compile it.
2. Add the libdmalloc.a to the objects circle is made from (before the
normal c libs with malloc in them)
3. Add the dmalloc.h at the end of sysdep.h (easiest) I made a preproc
define for linking with this lib. Handy for turning malloc debugging
on and off.... like:
#ifdef DMALLOC
# include "dmalloc.h"
#endif
4. To your dmalloc.h you might want to add the following:
#undef strdup
#define strdup(str) \
_xstrdup_leap(__FILE__, __LINE__, str)
This to trace strdups. You also might want to
#define str_dup(x) strdup(x)
Makes tracking str(_)dup's easier.
You also might wanna make something like this for fread_string (a
function you won't like when you're trying to find leaks (or unfreed
stuff)
5. Do something like (with bash as shell)
eval `dmalloc high -l /mud/dmalloc.log -i 1`
(make sure to get the quotes right) this sets malloc debugging to
max checks the internal structs of malloc every call to a malloc
related thing (slow) and writes a log to /mud/dmalloc.log (if it
don't work check the docs (I'm typing this off hand)
6. When using linux stay in this VC and run circle (within gdb is handy)
7. Telnet to the mud. Do a shutdown now (or whatever)
8. Wait a long time....
9. Wait some longer....
10. Come to the conclusion that Circle doesn't free nothin' :(
11. Start writing code to free up all memory circle uses..... Joy happy
NOT! ;)
12. Iterate a bit....
Just to illustrate I saved a load of the created logs. 1 was the first 10
was the last... Here are the filesizes...
-rw-rw-r-- 1 ric mud 252866 Aug 1 00:16 dmalloc.log.1
-rw-rw-r-- 1 ric mud 22380 Aug 13 19:26 dmalloc.log.10
-rw-rw-r-- 1 ric mud 187725 Aug 1 11:49 dmalloc.log.2
-rw-rw-r-- 1 ric mud 172947 Aug 1 17:55 dmalloc.log.3
-rw-rw-r-- 1 ric mud 158281 Aug 1 18:11 dmalloc.log.4
-rw-rw-r-- 1 ric mud 49780 Aug 1 19:35 dmalloc.log.5
-rw-rw-r-- 1 ric mud 59904 Aug 2 12:18 dmalloc.log.6
-rw-rw-r-- 1 ric mud 60353 Aug 2 13:14 dmalloc.log.7
-rw-rw-r-- 1 ric mud 57008 Aug 13 18:00 dmalloc.log.8
-rw-rw-r-- 1 ric mud 38436 Aug 13 19:16 dmalloc.log.9
At the moment I got most stuff freed. I have code I'm willing to share
but.... our mud is far from being stock code (loads of things are done in
linked lists, socials are completely read from file etc....) The code
might be usable (as a framework anyways) but will need a lot of rehacking
(and I'm no stock code expert (far from) so no support from me). People
still interested drop me a line...
Greets and enjoy or whatever...
GrimReaper
aka
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