Re: [squid-users] compile squid3 with alternate malloc.

On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:23:31 +0100, Mario Garcia Ortiz <mariog_at_absi.be>
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
Received on Wed Jan 20 2010 - 22:48:44 MST