max-cache-size doesn't work with 9.5.0b1

Florian Weimer fw at deneb.enyo.de
Fri Apr 4 12:44:27 UTC 2008


* JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉:

> Then the named process will eventually abort itself with a core dump
> due to malloc failure.  Please show us the stack trace at that point.
> Hopefully it will reveal the malloc call that keeps consuming memory.

I've successfully used a backtrace()-instrumented malloc() to track down
difficult memory leaks.  backtrace() is necessary because it allows you
to see past malloc() wrappers.

(backtrace() seems to be part of libexecinfo on FreeBSD.)


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