[ale] memory leaks?

[JK]

Geoffrey wrote:

> Any particular tools folks use to locate memory leaks?  I'm aware of 
> valgrind and various options to top and ps to see memory usage, but I'm 
> wondering if there are other tools folks are using I'm not aware.

There are memory-debugging versions of glibc's malloc() and free():
http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Allocation-Debugging.html
Not fancy, but effective.

I used this to debug some memory leaks in a multi-threaded
real-time C++ program.  It worked a *lot* better than valgrind,
which slowed everything to a crawl and pretty much prevented
the app from working at all (due to missing all its deadlines).

-- JK

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