[Bro] compiling bro with tcmalloc

Keith Lehigh klehigh at iupui.edu
Fri Sep 14 16:32:31 PDT 2012


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> >  Am I misunderstanding something about how Bro is compiling in/using tcmall
> oc
> >  or Bro's configure output?
> 
> Since 2.1, you need to explicitly pass --enable-perftools for Bro to
> use tcmalloc. We changed this because non-Linux platforms have less
> reliable tcmalloc support.
> 
That did the trick.  

Might I ask what "less reliable tcmalloc support" entails?  Anything specific or am I just in for random crashes, etc.?

- - Keith
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