Re: [Nagios-devel] NSCA memory leak

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[email protected] wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I am running nagios on Gentoo and having an issue with NSCA.
>
> When NSCA is running for a few days I get it crashes with this in dmesg:
>
> localhost nsca[6030]: segfault at ffffffffff600429 ip 00007f8d3ea19dfc sp
> 00007fff47281350 error 7 in libwrap.so.0.7.6[7f8d3ea16000+8000]
>
> I compiled NSCA in debug mode and ran it with valgrind. We found the
> following memory
> leak:
>

[snip]
> ==21927==
> ==21927== 37 bytes in 3 blocks are still reachable in loss record 1 of 4
> ==21927== at 0x4C24C1E: malloc (in
> /usr/lib64/valgrind/amd64-linux/vgpreload_memcheck.so)
> ==21927== by 0x54F5D31: strdup (in /lib64/libc-2.9.so)
> ==21927== by 0x402B6C: read_config_file (in /usr/bin/nsca)
> ==21927== by 0x4037DD: main (in /usr/bin/nsca)
> ==21927==

A fix for a minor memory loss when running NSCA under single daemon mode
has just been applied to CVS. That might fix some of the problem.

- Ethan Galstad





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