[Linux-HA] Info: CRM Memory Leaks

Andrew Beekhof beekhof at gmail.com
Mon Feb 26 01:55:31 MST 2007


On 2/24/07, Carson Gaspar <carson at taltos.org> wrote:
> Andrew Beekhof wrote:
>
> > When running tools like Valgrind, please remember that there are results
> > that I cannot do anything about. Eg:
> > * library functions that leak every time they're called
> > * library functions that create "global" data and offer no way to clean
> > it up^
>
> A bit late, but I'm curious which functions you're talking about. In

set_msg_callback() from heartbeat's messaging layer and (i think)
g_main_loop_run() are two off the top of my head.

> general, I try to always use the newer thread-safe versions of the old

there aren't any (or at least very few) threads in heartbeat

> static buffer functions that allow explicit malloc()s (foo_r() style)
> and avoid this sort of thing.


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