Re: Memory leaks

Greg Copeland wrote:

>I've started playing a little with Postgres to determine if there were
>memory leaks running around.  After some very brief checking, I'm
>starting[1] to think that the answer is yes.  Has anyone already gone
>through a significant effort to locate and eradicate memory leaks?  Is
>this done periodically?  If so, what tools are others using?  I'm
>currently using dmalloc for my curiosity.
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>[1] Not sure yet as I'm really wanting to find culumative leaks rather
>than one shot allocations which are simply never freed prior to process
>termination.
>
While all leaks should be fixed, obviously, this is one of the "good" 
things in the parennial  "Thread vs process" argument for processes.

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