Re: [Valgrind-users] Just starting ..

[David E. <tw...@us...>]

On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 12:31 -0800, Mark Probert wrote:
> Hi .. 
> 
>  On Monday 14 February 2005 12:20, David Eriksson wrote:
> > On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 11:31 -0800, Mark Probert wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I am just starting to use valgrind under FreeBSD, and using it to memory
> > > check a Ruby script for a suspected gc problems.  Unfortunately, I seem
> > > to be consistently crashing valgrind (the script is threaded and uses
> > > sockets):
> >
> > This may not be what you want to hear, but as it's a Ruby script I hope
> > portability is not a big problem:
> >
> > Grab a Linux box and run valgrind there! :-)
> 
> Thanks for your note, David.
> 
> I'll try it once I have a linux box up and going.  My real problem is under 
> Solaris, though I am not going to go into that!
> 
> And, yes, the scripts are portable, so there shouldn't be an issue with 
> running them under Linux.
> 
> On a related note, are any distros preferred over any other when it comes to 
> this kind of stuff?  Or is it all down to the packaging model an individual 
> likes?

Valgrind is written for 32-bit Linux and I would suggest one with a 2.6
kernel, but apart from that the distro you use is mostly a matter of
preference. If you want specific suggestions, send a private mail so I
don't start any distro wars here... :-)

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