| Debugging Tools for Windows |
You can generate multiple UMDH logs of the same process over time. Then, you can use UMDH to compare the logs and determine which call stack allocations have grown the most between trials.
For example, the following command directs UMDH to compare two UMDH logs, Log1.txt and Log2.txt, and redirects the output to a third file, Compare.txt.
The resulting Compare.txt file lists the call stacks recorded in each log and, for each stack, displays the change in heap allocations between the log files.
For example, the following line from the file shows the change in allocation size for the functions in the call stack labeled "Backtrace00053."
In Log1.txt, the calls in the stack accounts for 40,432 (0x9DF0) bytes, but in Log2.txt, the same call stack accounts for 61,712 (0xF110) bytes, a difference of 21,280 (0x5320) bytes.
Total increase == 5320
Following is the stack for the allocation:
ntdll!RtlAllocateHeapSlowly+0x0000005A
ntdll!RtlAllocateHeap+0x00000808
MyApp!_heap_alloc_base+0x00000069
MyApp!_heap_alloc_dbg+0x000001A2
MyApp!_nh_malloc_dbg+0x00000023
MyApp!_nh_malloc+0x00000016
MyApp!operator new+0x0000000E
MyApp!LeakyFunc+0x0000001E
MyApp!main+0x0000002C
MyApp!mainCRTStartup+0x000000FC
KERNEL32!BaseProcessStart+0x0000003D
An examination of the call stack shows that the LeakyFunc function is allocating memory by using the Visual C++ run-time library. If examination of the other log files shows that the allocation grows over time, you might be able to conclude that memory allocated from the heap is not being freed.