SIGKILL

[Seth Gordon]

> I've gotten valgrind and installed it, and ran some simple tests (ie
> valgrind ls -l, etc) but when I go to run it against my application it
> comes
> to a standstill.  What is the normal degree of slowdown from this tool?
> It's been almost 10 minutes without moving.

I haven't actually used valgrind, but from what I've read, it runs your
program on a simulated CPU and intercepts every system call, so that it
can keep track of every byte of memory that gets allocated and how that
memory is used.  Since your application is dying because the OS runs out
of memory, it stands to reason that valgrind would slow it down a lot.

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