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Re: [ns] ns2 eats memory, how to debug ?



For specific suggestions about debugging memory, please see
<http://www.isi.edu/nsnam/ns/ns-debugging.html>

   -John Heidemann


>Eating up memory cycles can result from many factors. It may be that you
>are allocating objects and not destroying them properly. 
>
>On a lighter note: Once a friend of mine was allocating some RNG object
>everytime he needed a ftp session.  Hence he (unknowingly) allocated
>millions RNG objects and he ate up 1GB of RAM. 
>
>Debo
>
>
>On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, Neundorf Alexander wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I did heavy modifications to ns2 (in wireless mode), and now ns2 uses up all the system memory when running a long simulation (several simulated minutes). It doesn't grow very fast, but it does and I don't know whether I introduced this or whether it was already present.
>> I'm using ns2 under windows.
>> How can I debug it ?
>> I tried to compile mpatrol, but it exits with error message 
>> C2375: free/malloc/memset/...   redefined; different linkage.
>> 
>> Any hints ?
>> 
>> Thanks
>> Alex
>> 
>> --
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>> 
>> 
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