[SGVLUG] Help Treating Memory Leak

[Michael Proctor-Smith]

On 3/9/06, Alex Roston <tungtung at pacbell.net> wrote:
> I'm currently writing an application which appears to have a nasty
> memory leak. If I run it for an hour or two it will happly increase the
> memory used by 10-20 megabytes, at least as "top" measures things. Can
> anyone suggest a program which will accurately track memory use by a
> single application as it's running? "Top" shows me the memory the system
> is using, and the memory the program SHOULD BE using, but it's not
> giving me a definitive answer about what my application is doing with
> memory, or whether the problem is some other part of the system, or
> perhaps me test program...

Valgrind is an great tool for finding memory leaks. It will report
leaked memory and using uninitialized memory.