It’s no use carrying an umbrella if your shoes are leaking
Posted 7 months ago at 20:57. 0 comments
Ah, there’s always an Irish proverb to fit the bill (especially if the bill happens to be a bar tab).
There are 4 new unit test buildbot slaves in the mix:
- qm-leak-centos5-01
- qm-leak-macosx-01
- qm-leak-winxp01
- qm-leak-w2k3-01
These machines are a little different: they’re producing debug builds and are running the standard suite of unit tests (reftest, mochitest, mochichrome, and browser chrome), but they are doing so with trace-malloc, bloat, and leak logging enabled as well.
These unit test build machines are currently reporting to the MozillaTest tinderbox tree. Jeff Walden has had a preliminary look at the output, but the tests still remain chronically red/orange. What we need now are more eyeballs to compare the failures we’re seeing on these boxes with the output of the same tests on the unit test machines reporting to the Firefox tree to tease out the legitimate failures and get bugs filed.
If you are interested in helping, you can find more information about debugging memory leaks at the Mozilla Developer Center.
