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You can enable heap debugging for the FairCom DB process by setting these environment variables before startup.
export LD_PRELOAD=libumem.so.1
export UMEM_DEBUG=default
export UMEM_LOGGING=transaction
This is a low overhead malloc() debugging method, suitable for a production environment experiencing possible heap corruption. With the above options, it will check some guard zones for memory overwrites on alloc/free.
It also has many commands when a core generated with libumem is used with the mdb debugger.
::umem_status and ::umem_verify are useful, and the complete list of dcmds can be found in mdb by executing:
> ::dmods -l libumem.so.1
man umem_debug has more details.
watchmalloc is another malloc debugging library on Solaris that detects memory overwrites more reliably, however, runs very slowly and is not useful in a production environment.
