Re: MEMORY QUESTION

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From: Andrew Gabriel
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 11:05

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In article <3A611A23.C9AA59AD@home.com>,
	Robert Anderson <rwa511@home.com> writes:
>wroot@my-deja.com wrote:
>> I have asked this question in Linux newsgroups, but got no answer. I'm
>> trying to see how much memory my program allocates (at its highest) and
>> whether it deallocates all of it by the time the program finishes or
>> leaks memory. Are there any tools for that?
>
>purify is an excellent commercial tool for this purpose.  But it is not
>cheap.

Electric fence is another, and free. I don't know for sure if it works
on Linux, but I would think it's quite likely to.

Some unixs ship with debugging malloc libraries - again I don't know
about Linux - might depend on your distribution.

-- 
Andrew Gabriel                              Andrew@cucumber.demon.co.uk
Consultant Software Engineer

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From: andrew@cucumber.demon.co.uk (Andrew Gabriel)
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Subject: Re: MEMORY QUESTION
Date: 14 Jan 2001 11:05:37 GMT
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