RE: what is purify

From: Stephane Faroult <sfaroult_at_oriolecorp.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 05:23:34 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.004F241F.20021024052334@fatcity.com>

('binary' encoding is not supported, stored as-is)
>Now in a dump, Oracle see's something called purify
>and want us to disable it to see if that makes a
>difference.
>
>Never heard of purify - what is this??
>

A product which checks memory allocation - that you are not writing at an address location you have freed or that you have no memory leak. They somewhat intercept calls to malloc(), free() and the like before forwarding them to the memory. May have some impact on performance but I doubt the Oracle explanation. I think that Oracle uses this product (not enough), the reference to it may well be in their code.

Regards,

Stephane Faroult
Oriole

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Received on Thu Oct 24 2002 - 08:23:34 CDT