Subject: Re: Can malloc return invalid memory?
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: current-users
Date: 04/03/2000 12:08:01
On Sun, Apr 02, 2000 at 10:42:19PM -0400, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:
> Well, when I say "huge" I mean in comparison to other programs.  It only
> winds up being about 20 to 30 MB.  Swap never gets past 2 or 3% usage
> while it runs.  It does go to the memory pool hundreds of thousands of
> times though.

Maybe you have something which corrupts malloc's internal memory ?
I'm not sure how to detect this in an easy way, though.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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