I try to run a simple test with valgrind but it seems that valgrind can’t even start because of some memory limitation issue.
Command:
valgrind --leak-check=full --track-origins=yes echo 'test'
Output:
==26260== Valgrind's memory management: out of memory:
==26260== initialiseSector(TC)'s request for 27597024 bytes failed.
==26260== 143327232 bytes have already been allocated.
==26260== Valgrind cannot continue. Sorry.
Only 355
/490
MB of my total RAM is consumed so I would guess that is not the reason behind this since valgrind is such a small tool. Also I run the test inside a docker container if that matters.
Any idea on how to solve?
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One thing that it important to note here is that running a program with valgrind will require about twice as much memory as normal usage. This is because it keeps around a shadow copy of allocated memory.
The section on valgrind in this blog post about debugging tools was really helpful for me in understanding what it is up to underneath the hood: