Re: [Valgrind-users] valgrind hang on start phase - 2

[John R. <jr...@bi...>]

> http://pastebin.com/n60pN1LL

The line

   SYSCALL[11763,1](  0) sys_read ( 4, 0x90b2e34, 38346752 )

appears many many times.  A read() of 38MB is done over and over and over again.
That's expensive.  A read()-from-a-device is a write-to-memory,
so memcheck must mark those 38MB as valid, over and over and over again.

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