Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 5821] Reduce per-packet memory requirements
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Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 08:41:24 -0700 (PDT)
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5821

--- Comment #6 from Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws@xxxxxxxxx> 2011-04-13 08:41:23 PDT ---
(In reply to comment #2)
> Yes, the memory-use-tracking stuff would be useful and, yes, cranking up the
> debugging level for malloc - on any platforms that let you do that - would be
> useful.  You can crank the malloc debugging up another notch with the "guard

OK, I chose a bunch of useful-looking options from the regular MacOS library
and turned them on in rev 36622.  I set the heap check interval to 1000--that
may need to be tuned to be usable.

> The Linux malloc man page at

We were already exporting _MALLOC_CHECK=3 (abort on errors).

> and the FreeBSD 8.2 malloc man page at

I turned on both the "A" (abort on warnings) and "J" (initialize memory)
options.

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