[vtk-developers] valgrind still missing

Bill Lorensen bill.lorensen at gmail.com
Sat Sep 8 14:16:10 EDT 2012


Unfortunately, it always takes a while to get rid of those bogus errors.

On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 10:34 AM, David E DeMarle
<dave.demarle at kitware.com>wrote:

> 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
> >
>



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