How to use mtrace to detect memory leaks in executable in Linux ?

The mtrace() function installs hook functions for the memory- allocation functions malloc, realloc, memalign, free. These hook … Read more

What is the difference between elfutils and binutils ?

As per wikipedia, elfutils is mentioned as, “Ulrich Drepper wrote elfutils, to replace GNU Binutils, purely for … Read more

Using GDB to debug functions defined in another file in C

In our previous post “How to use gdb for debugging application programs ( On Ubuntu Linux using … Read more

Netdata – Real-time performance monitoring tool for Linux

Recently we encountered with one of the beautiful tool we could get for monitoring Linux’s real time … Read more