While trying to profile a C++ program that uses the CLN library with memprof I kept getting the message "MemProf: Starter malloc exceeded available space". I fixed this by increasing STARTER_SIZE in memintercept.c (line 68) from 1k to 32k (to be on the safe side). I'm not exactly sure what the STARTER_SIZE is for and why a C++ program would require a larger value (static objects), but the default seems be too low.
We have the same problem. In it's current state, memprof is really quite useless. Why is no updated version available???
I've now updated and built the utilitly via sources checked out from the GNOME CVS. Note that STARTER_SIZE of 32k wasn't even enough for me, I'm now using #define STARTER_SIZE 128*1024
It disappoints me that nobody has tried to address this issue. We are now getting the problem once again because we have upgraded to Red Hat 7.2, overwriting the patched version...
memprof-0.5.0-2 in Rawhide fixes this by changing the way memprof handles intialization. I haven't seen problesm with any of the C++ programs I've tried.