Running hotspot with valgrind to detect memory leak?
Neo Jia
neojia at gmail.com
Sun May 20 22:50:50 PDT 2007
On 5/20/07, Sandeep Konchady <Sandeep.Konchady at sun.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Extending what Neo Jia ran on JVM, I tested OpenJDK VM with Valgrind
> using MemoryMonitor demo. To my surprise I got a HotSpot crash in
> nmethod.cpp. I am attaching hs_err log file to this email and can give
> the Valgrind log if needed. Also I was unable to find similar report on
> SDN bug database.
>
> # Internal Error (nmethod.cpp:1822), pid=6946, tid=80788368
> # Error: guarantee(cont_offset != 0,"unhandled implicit exception in
> compiled code")
Sandeep,
Is there anything interesting in the valgrind log file?
Thanks,
Neo
>
> Thanks,
> Sandeep
>
> Neo Jia wrote:
> > hi,
> >
> > For fun, I just ran the hotspot vm with valgrind memory checking. To
> > my surprise, valgrind has identified several "memory leak" inside vm.
> > Although there might be some false positive, I still would like to dig
> > a little bit.
> >
> > For your reference, you may get the log file from the following link
> > since it is too huge to send through a mailing list. This tiny log
> > file is generated by running helloworld.java.
> >
> > http://neoworld.unl.edu/~cjia/openJDK/valgrind_hotspot_helloworld/valgrind_java_helloworld.30666
> >
> > http://neoworld.unl.edu/~cjia/openJDK/valgrind_hotspot_helloworld/valgrind_java_helloworld.30666.1
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Neo
>
>
>
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