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.
>
>[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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