---
name: "kminspector"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "kmtrace"
version: "4:3.5.9-2"
release: "Debian 5.0 (Lenny)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/kminspector"
---

# kminspector(1)

run a program with the KDE memory leak tracer

## NAME

kminspector - run a program with the KDE memory leak tracer

## SYNOPSIS

**kminspector** *program* \[ *program-args* \]

## DESCRIPTION

**KMinspector** runs the given program, examines its memory allocation behaviour using *libktrace* and pipes the resulting allocation tree through *less*.

The given program does not need to be specially compiled.

This utility is provided with KMtrace, a KDE tool to assist with malloc debugging using glibc's "mtrace" functionality. Unfortunately the mtrace that is part of current (9/9/2000) glibc versions only logs the return-address of the malloc/free call. The library included with KMtrace logs a complete backtrace upon malloc/free.

This utility is part of the KDE Software Development Kit.

## SEE ALSO

[**demangle**(1)](/demangle/1.md), [**kmmatch**(1)](/kmmatch/1.md), [**kmtrace**(1)](/kmtrace/1.md).

Much more extensive documentation for KMtrace can be found in */usr/share/doc/kmtrace/README*.

## AUTHOR

KMtrace was written by Waldo Bastian \<bastian@kde.org\>, Mike Haertel \<mike@ai.mit.edu\> and Andi Kleen \<ak@suse.de\>.\
 This manual page was prepared by Ben Burton \<bab@debian.org\> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).