Detecting Memory Leaks

[rlk at alum.mit.edu (Robert L Krawitz)]

   From: Bob Gorman <bob at rsi.com>
   Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 19:17:14 -0400

   At 04:01 PM 7/15/2004, Samuel Donham wrote:
   >One of my clients claims that I have a memory leak in one of our
   >applications.  He claims that 'top' reports my app is slowly consuming
   >more memory after running for 30 days (now 20 megs, up from 8 when it was
   >first started).  Perhaps there is a memory leak, but I don't think 'top'
   >is a good indicator of one ('free' would be much better).

   You can also try some other display options of 'top', with the F
   (field) command.  You may find these fields of interest:

Valgrind is an excellent tool for this purpose, although it does slow
the application down tremendously.

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