[Bro] How can I use the USE_PERFTOOLS_DEBUG ?

[John Donnelly]

Thanks.


Leak check net_run detected leaks of 96678 bytes in 912 objects
The 20 largest leaks:
Leak of 17920 bytes in 35 objects allocated from:
@ 72ba06
@ 72b48d
@ 72aabc
@ 72a00b
@ 7298f7
@ 728e47
@ 727916
@ 727df6
@ 7273a8
@ 724fa9
@ 69a5d5
@ 5f29e5
@ 7f250155dec5
@ 5d1bd8


  What does @xxxxxx   mean ?    A function address ?


On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 9:49 AM, Robin Sommer <robin at icir.org> wrote:

>
>
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 09:23 -0600, John Donnelly wrote:
>
> > #ifdef USE_PERFTOOLS_DEBUG
>
> What this does is activating perftool's HeapChecker/HeapProfiler
> during Bro's main loop (i.e., ignoring of all initialization/shutdown
> code, which has known but uninteresting leaks). If you then set the
> environment variable HEAPCHECK=local and run Bro with -m, it will
> record leaks per
> https://google-perftools.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/doc/heap_checker.html.
> Similar for heap profiling.
>
> Take a look at the tests in testing/btest/core/leaks, they use this.
>
> Robin
>
> --
> Robin Sommer * ICSI/LBNL * robin at icir.org * www.icir.org/robin
>
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