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sorry found it! see previous post. top sorted by 'M' and text alligned. thanks

Thanks for your suggestions. i shall be having a go at the malloc wrapper asap. However check this out: This is a 'top' for my situation. I'm running the app thorugh valgrind (appears as 'memcheck')....

ahhh right as rain you are!
and i'm plainly embarassed!

thanks a million!

i've actually been using valgrind to get an indication of what's going on since the application is rather big... It get's a bit messy since there are external libs used and to this point i can't be...

Well, according to the definition of write() the buffer argument is an array of (well 'pointer to' anyway) characters (bytes)...

NAME
write - write output

SYNOPSIS
int write(fd,...

hi,

i've been having trouble sending zero bytes (0x00) over a TCP socket in a C prog. Apparently, the null byte serves as a terminator and a buffer holding such is "truncated" at the first zero...

hi,

i'm trying to verify and track down what seems to be a memleak in a C program that runs in daemon fashion 24/7. I'm using Ubuntu. The process crashes every few days due to lack of memory...

well... at the moment i'm trying to fix the leaks reported by valgrind and u can imagine some are not very easy to find... valgrind indicates the allocation spot but not where the leak actually...

well, the kernel is the same. glibc too. some libraries (it's a bit hard to know which) should not be the same. The H/W is the same... The thing is that the Dapper tests show that everything's...

thanks & sorry again for misplacing the post,

to answer ur question Salem, i need to reboot to get memory back to normal...

Some more: it takes a substantial length of time (~1 week) to reach...

one more thing...

when the program crashes the memory does NOT drop to normal levels. The memory leaked appears to be unfreed even when the process has been killed. Can this happen or does this...

as a matter of fact this post IS on the VLC developer mailing list as well... but this is not the point. the question that i suppose suits this forum is "how to certify which process has the memory...

Hi all,

For a while now i've been working on a video broadcasting server (namely VLC) under linux. Obviously the program runs (or should run) permanently as a daemon.

My problem is when...