Attaching libumem is causing process to receive SIGKILL (Signal 9)

Question

I have a need to check for memory leak in a Java application that uses JNI (C++ Code) a lot. When I attach libumem, the process exits after receiving a SIGKILL (Signal 9).

When does a process receive SIGKILL? How is libumem causing it?

OS: Solaris 8.

Answer 1

Solaris 8, Does NOT have libumem by default! Thus the program was not able to startup at all.