On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:23:31 +0100, Mario Garcia Ortiz <mariog@xxxxxxx> wrote: > hello > i want to use an alternate malloc library on solaris 10 as my current > setup has heavy memory leaks and the process becomes extremely huge. > > from the configure option dlmalloc has dissapeared. i would like to > use libmtmalloc. but i don't know which configure or CFLAGS use to > force the squid to load this malloc instead of the default libc malloc > wich obviously cannot handle or work well on solaris OS. > > I have tried to use LD_PRELOAD before launching squid but this doesn't > seem to have any effect. > > there's no much information as how to compile the gnu malloc which > seems to be quite old.. changing the malloc is one of the last steps i > can do to avoid the process become so big and then crash. > > I am eagerly looking forward your help > > thank you in advance. > > MG I think it needs this before ./configure and build: export CFLAGS="-lmtmalloc" export CXXFLAGS="-lmtmalloc" If that works I'll look into adding an option to set them easily. Amos
