Re: [Valgrind-users] Are valgrind leak-check results valid if target allocates a block larger than 4G?

[Dan K. <da...@ke...>]

On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 2:03 AM, Bob Harris <rsh...@gm...> wrote:
>> You will run out of memory more quickly under valgrind that you do normally
>> is the basic message.
>
> Sure, understandable.  But to go from a program that is able to
> allocate nearly 16G without valgrind to one that fails at 2.8G with
> it?

That does seem a bit much, I thought Valgrind's memory overhead
was an extra bit per byte.
- Dan