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Re: [Nagios-devel] Memory leak in Nagios3?

Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2007 5:29 am
by Guest
Hendrik Bäcker wrote:
> Hi List,
>
> after a four days running nagios 3 (latest cvs) I've recognized that my
> system has only 80 MByte of free Memory (top).
> After stopping Nagios the amount of free memory jumps up to 2,7 GByte.
>

Are you using embedded perl? It's the single largest memory-sink in Nagios
at the moment.

> Now my question: What is the best way to find such a leak (if there is one)?
>

Ues valgrind.

> I know tools like valgrind, but I am not familar with right use of it.
>
> So, if someone can hit me to the right direction, I will try to debug.
>

man valgrind, or learn how to implement ref-counting in C and add it to
Nagios. If done properly, it will eliminate all in-core leaks and leave
only the embedded perl ones.

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