Re: Dtrace and glib

[Federico Mena Quintero <federico ximian com>]

On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 01:06 -0700, Veerapuram Varadhan wrote:

> I have gnusolaris (nexenta os) installed and was running dtrace on
> evolution to find memory leaks.  When I was running valgrind on
> evolution, couple of months back, I had a custom built gnome environment
> with a "disabled mem pool" glib.  In gnusolaris, I don't have a glib
> with a "disabled mem pool", because of which, dtrace reports lots of
> (false) memory leaks.  
> 
> Is there any option to specify glib to disable mem pools? (without
> compiling it?)

Unfortunately you have to recompile glib to enable this :(

Also, Glib HEAD doesn't yet have support for disabling GSlice memory
pools.  It would be great if you could implement that :)  There's some
discussion on gtk-devel-list about this.

  Federico