Re: Large memory usage by gdb

Alex Lindsay <[email protected]> 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?

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Yao (齐尧)