kmtrace − a KDE memory leak tracer
kmtrace [ generic-options ] [ −x, −−exclude file ] [ −e, −−exe file ] [ −t, −−tree file [ −−th, −−treethreshold value ] [ −−td, −−treedepth value ]] [ trace-log ]
KMtrace is a KDE tool to assist with malloc debugging using glibc’s "mtrace" functionality. Unfortunately the mtrace that is part of current (9/9/2000) glibc versions only logs the return-address of the malloc/free call. The library included with KMtrace logs a complete backtrace upon malloc/free.
KMtrace will investigate the trace log specified on the command line, or ktrace.out if no trace log is specified.
This utility is part of the KDE Software Development Kit.
Below are the kmtrace-specific options. For a full summary of options, run kmtrace −−help.
−x, −−exclude file
File containing symbols to exclude from output.
−e, −−exe file
Executable to use for looking up unknown symbols.
−t, −−tree file
Write a tree of the allocations to the given file.
−−th, −−treethreshold value
When writing the allocations tree, hide subtrees allocating less than the given memory amount.
−−td, −−treedepth value
When writing the allocations tree, hide subtrees that are deeper than the specified depth.
demangle(1), kminspector(1), kmmatch(1).
Much more extensive documentation can be found in /usr/share/doc/kmtrace/README.
KMtrace was written by Waldo Bastian <bastian AT kde DOT org>, Mike Haertel <mike AT ai DOT mit DOT edu> and Andi Kleen <ak AT suse DOT de>.
This manual page was prepared by Ben Burton <bab AT debian DOT org> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).