[vtk-developers] valgrind still missing

[David E DeMarle]

Darn, I thought we had zero defects! :)

I fixed that right away, but now I have the same problem on amber8 as
I did on karego-at. Valgrind is catching leaks in the system libraries
on this machine that don't matter from our perspective. As a result
the valgrind result file is several GB in size, which cdash wouldn't
be able to digest. I'll take another shot at writing a valgrind
suppression file which cuts out the junk and leaves the actual
problems later this coming week.

David E DeMarle
Kitware, Inc.
R&D Engineer
21 Corporate Drive
Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
Phone: 518-881-4909


On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 10:26 AM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com> wrote:
> David,
>
> Looks like you're getting close.
>
> However, each test is failing with:
>
> valgrind: Bad option: --num-callers=100
> valgrind: --num-callers argument must be between 1 and 50
> valgrind: Bad option: --num-callers=100
>
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 10:26 PM, David E DeMarle <dave.demarle at kitware.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Note though that the bigger priority right now is restoring the coverage
>> we had before and resolving enough of the comp failures, warnings and test
>> failure noise to make the dashboards useable again. No sense running
>> valgrind really when tests are missing and failing and VTK_DEBUG_LEAKS is
>> complaining.
>>
>> On Thursday, September 6, 2012, David E DeMarle wrote:
>>>
>>> The valgrind supressions need work to separate the wheat from the chaff.
>>> Especially since it is a Mac, not Linux this time. I may give up and find a
>>> Linux box instead, but we will have a valgrind submission soon and hopefully
>>> we can all chip in and plug the leaks like we did last time around.
>>>
>>> On Thursday, September 6, 2012, Bill Lorensen wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I did see that,  but  no valgrind summary on cdash.
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 8:27 PM, David E DeMarle
>>>> <dave.demarle at kitware.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm working on it. See karego-at on the experimental section.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thursday, September 6, 2012, Bill Lorensen wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Folks,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I notice a flurry of activity to clean up the dashboard. I assume this
>>>>>> is motivated by the desire to release VTK6.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> A valgrind build has been missing for some time now. I assume we will
>>>>>> not release VTK6 until we have a valgrind build that has zero defects.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I spent a bit of time last Fall getting the defects to zero:
>>>>>> http://vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/SoftwareQuality/Valgrind/Fall2011
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The last valgrind report was August 14 with over 2400 defects.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Bill
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> David E DeMarle
>>>>> Kitware, Inc.
>>>>> R&D Engineer
>>>>> 21 Corporate Drive
>>>>> Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
>>>>> Phone: 518-881-4909
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Unpaid intern in BillsBasement at noware dot com
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> David E DeMarle
>>> Kitware, Inc.
>>> R&D Engineer
>>> 21 Corporate Drive
>>> Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
>>> Phone: 518-881-4909
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> David E DeMarle
>> Kitware, Inc.
>> R&D Engineer
>> 21 Corporate Drive
>> Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
>> Phone: 518-881-4909
>
>
>
>
> --
> Unpaid intern in BillsBasement at noware dot com
>