Echoes of the underwater world

Spent a big part of the last 2 days trying to implement dmalloc nicely in SQuaLe. Debugging memory allocations in a daemon process is a tough thing.

The process is supposed to run forever so you have to mark the heap status at regular point to be able to list unfreed pointers compared to the marker you put earlier. This way i discovered some nice memory allocation that never get freed from the Oracle client libraries and some g_malloc0 that i should investigate some more.

Well at the end of the day i still haven’t found a valid memory leak in SQuaLe’s code and i’m really wondering what’s happening with the weird memory behaviour that i can observe on some servers. I upgraded them to glib 2.4 just in case there might be some fixes compared to 2.2 and we’ll see what happens on monday.

dmalloc is quite hard to implement and use for a daemon but that’s the only efficient way i found to track memory leaks, so i recommend it warmly !

Yesterday we bought Christian’s Ferarri, i hope he will like it when he arrives in the middle of august. Getting a norvegian guy to work in your company has a high price to pay… To prevent others being jealous we also bought a plane for the technical team, dunno if they will be able to reach the moon with that one, but first we have to buy some furnitures to customize it with Fluendo’s graphical identity (paintings, etc…)

Time to order some pizzas and drive back home for the week end !

So finally that hard day came… It’s been a very long time since my last visit to a dentist but i started to feel guilty not going there. You know that kind of feeling that make you think that something really bad will happen to you and that you will hardly regret being so unresponsible.

Well like expected she found tons of stuff to do and i m already lining up 5 or 6 sessions there for the next weeks. The good thing is that she started with some ultrasound cleaning and now i don’t even recognize the feeling of my tongue touching my teeth in my own mouth, quite disturbing and fun at the same time !

I have been looking at Macromedia Flex today after reading Miguel’s post and it sounds really interesting. I sent them an email to get some trial CD in europe, might be an interesting technology to redevelop our statistics control panel.

Thanks to Zaheer for pointing me to the fact that my wordpress writings were just showing up as a summary in planet gnome.

Zoe is moving more and more everyday, Noelle is always amazed to see how high she can get now. I think we will have a very energetic daughter in october…

Well we’ll see.