From: Yao Qi <qiyaoltc@gmail.com>
To: Alex Lindsay <alexlindsay239@gmail.com>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Large memory usage by gdb
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2017 07:28:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86bmo7pshw.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8d511930-9914-9aef-363f-2fff37dfc6a8@gmail.com> (Alex Lindsay's message of "Tue, 25 Jul 2017 15:20:25 -0500")
Alex Lindsay <alexlindsay239@gmail.com> writes:
> My OS is Ubuntu 17.04. Using both gdb 7.12 and 8.0, I experience large
> memory usage when debugging my executable. As I add breakpoints and
> run the executable multiple times in a single session, memory usage
> grows continuously, regularly hitting 10s of GBs. I don't recall
> experiencing this issue with earlier Ubuntu versions (and also likely
> earlier versions of gdb). When I debug the same executable with
> lldb`, memory usage is pretty much constant at around 2 GB. Does
> anyone have any suggestions?
What is your executable? Can you give us some characteristics of your
executable to help us to reproduce this problem? Is it multi-threaded
program? Is it a C or C++ program? Does it load many shared library?
--
Yao (齐尧)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-07-26 7:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-07-25 20:20 Alex Lindsay
2017-07-25 20:28 ` Philippe Waroquiers
2017-07-31 22:11 ` Alex Lindsay
2017-08-01 19:12 ` Philippe Waroquiers
[not found] ` <420b109c-1610-d687-ae9a-b172542fafca@gmail.com>
2017-08-04 21:43 ` Alex Lindsay
2017-08-07 9:16 ` Yao Qi
2017-08-07 19:53 ` Philippe Waroquiers
2017-08-07 21:04 ` Alex Lindsay
2017-08-07 21:34 ` Simon Marchi
2017-08-07 18:19 ` Philippe Waroquiers
2017-07-26 7:28 ` Yao Qi [this message]
[not found] ` <4fc14853-b066-4fd7-f0c9-b98f442a9a95@gmail.com>
2017-07-26 15:55 ` Yao Qi
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