----- Original Message ----- From: "Justin Adler" <spam@WORLD-DOMINATION.COM.AU> > Hello All. > > So my question is this -> Has anyone tried tried using a Memory Leak > finding program with their circlemud code? > What you need to do, is to link in electric fence in your mud. Electric fence is a library that takes over handling of memory allocation, and checks if you index out of range, overflow, underrun, etc. To use it: edit your makefile, LIBS = -lefence make your binary, and run it through gdb. now, if you have any major memory leaks, it will be sure to tell you where they are. Actually the program crashes instead of ignoring buffer overruns, indexing out of range, etc, and so forth, giving you a nice backtrace to work from. However, since efence uses a lot of memory you might want to either run the mud in mini mode (-m), or use a select small world (edit the indexes in the world file dirs). The latter is prefered, as spec procs aren't loaded in mini mode, and thus you aren't checking those for memory problems. When you've got the fenced mud up and running, be sure to test out every command you have. You never know which part of the code is your problem... If you haven't got electric fence on your shell, I'm pretty sure a search in the archives will give you a download link. Welcor -- +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | FAQ: http://qsilver.queensu.ca/~fletchra/Circle/list-faq.html | | Archives: http://post.queensu.ca/listserv/wwwarch/circle.html | | Newbie List: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/circle-newbies/ | +---------------------------------------------------------------+
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