Re: [SSSD] RFC: Talloc reports

[Jakub Hrozek]

On Thu, Sep 03, 2015 at 12:48:20PM +0200, Pavel Březina wrote:
> Hi,
> due to recent memory leak issues, I think it would be good to provide a
> built-in way to store talloc full report in a file. It proved to be very
> helpful in detection of the location where memory leak occurs, but we always
> obtained it from custom built.
>
> I would very much like to write a patch, but I'd like to hear your opinion
> on how it should be obtains. I have few ideas:
> Periodic task -- periodically (1 hour?) store talloc full report into a
>
> file.
>
> Generate report on signal.
>
> Generate report on D-Bus method.
>
> Provide a tool that would do 2) or 3).
>
> I personally favor 1).

Do you plan to use a new debug level to avoid the cost associated with
walking the talloc hierarchy and printing the output? This debug aid
must be free of cost for anyone not using it..