Bug 74090 - memprof crashes randomly and possibly false positives
Summary: memprof crashes randomly and possibly false positives
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: memprof
Version: 7.3
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Owen Taylor
QA Contact: Brian Brock
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-09-15 19:37 UTC by Joe Acosta
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:46 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2002-09-15 19:37:17 UTC
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Description Joe Acosta 2002-09-15 19:37:12 UTC 
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Description of problem:
While using memprof and a program to check for memory leaks even simple programs
seem to have leaks.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. run memprof
2. start using it
3. if the program is a little large it may shoot the CPU up

its it to random at this point to know what the actual steps are, but often it
is on pressing the leaks button
	

Actual Results:  sometimes it works sometimes it crashes.

Additional info:
Comment 1 Owen Taylor 2002-11-01 02:01:15 UTC 
please try the memprof shipped with Red Hat 8.0; it includes many
fixes and improvements.
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