From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2007 20:57:02 GMT
Subject: Re: dmalloc and leaks in git
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.9999.0712091251330.12046@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <9e4733910712081253t7cd43f87o6001f32fddc01565@mail.gmail.com>



On Sat, 8 Dec 2007, Jon Smirl wrote:
> 
> But using dmalloc shows a pervasive problem, none of the git commands
> are cleaning up after themselves. For example I ran a simple command,
> git-status, and thousands of objects were not freed.

One thing to do is to use a better reporting tool.

For example, if you use

	valgrind --tool=massif --heap=yes ...

it will generate a postscript file with the allocation history as a graph 
of the different allocators in different colors etc. That would likely 
show where the big users come from..

		Linus