Re: [Valgrind-users] Valgrind taking a lot of time trying to determine if there are memory leaks before it prints "leak summary".

[Paul F. <pj...@wa...>]

On 05-12-24 14:19, Wojciech Bocer wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have a problem with Valgrind taking a lot of time trying to
> determine if there are memory leaks before it exits.


Roughly speaking leak detection involves scanning though all accessible 
memory using pointer-size alignment to look for any pointers to unfreed 
memory blocks. This code does handle segfaults.

I don't have any real idea why the combination of x86 and Docker gives 
large numbers of segfaults and a major slowdown.

I suggest that you get the source for Valgrind and set these macros in 
mc_leakcheck.c to 1


// Define to debug the memory-leak-detector.
#define VG_DEBUG_FIND_CHUNK 0
#define VG_DEBUG_LEAKCHECK 0
#define VG_DEBUG_CLIQUE    0

and then build Valgrind.

A+
Paul