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Large memory usage by gdb
- From: Alex Lindsay <alexlindsay239 at gmail dot com>
- To: gdb at sourceware dot org
- Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2017 15:20:25 -0500
- Subject: Large memory usage by gdb
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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?
Alex