docs: fix memory troubleshooting doc

Type: docs

Change-Id: Id9f8f6f13e4a41567adf7dc68e6c9be42dd82de7
Signed-off-by: Benoît Ganne <bganne@cisco.com>
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Benoît Ganne
2020-11-13 18:43:30 +01:00
committed by Dave Barach
parent 69842be389
commit 34a19b2ddc
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@@ -12,3 +12,4 @@ problem with FD.io VPP implementations.
reportingissues/index.rst
cpuusage
sanitizer
mem

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@@ -19,11 +19,13 @@ where memory leaks happen.
To enable memory traces on main-heap:
.. code-block:: console
$ vppctl memory-trace on main-heap
To dump memory traces for analysis:
.. code-block:: console
$ vppctl show memory-trace on main-heap
Thread 0 vpp_main
base 0x7fffb6422000, size 1g, locked, unmap-on-destroy, name 'main heap'
@@ -79,6 +81,7 @@ main-heap.
To use it, you need to use the `LD_PRELOAD` mechanism, eg.
.. code-block:: console
~# LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libvppmem_preload.so /usr/bin/vpp -c /etc/vpp/startup.conf
You can then use tools such as memory traces as usual.