Memory Leakage

[Indrajit_1]

Hi All;

How to prevent memory leakage? it seems Memory utilization has had a slowly increasing trend (about 1.4%) for the past couple of months. need help

Cheers
indrajit

[Kent Ostby]

What OS are you on and where are you seeing the leaks?

What patches do you have installed on your system?

[Torsten.]

Memory leakage could be a result of a bad programming style. If you allocate space for your variables and arrays and don't free the space after use in your program, the memory will get "leak".

In former times when your word processor and your text fits on a floppy-disk, the programs were really memory optimized. Most of the current programs are different.
;-)

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

It is not unusual for a programs' memory footprint to grow over time, since the memory it uses isn't released to the system until the process terminates.

True memory leaks are code bugs. A program that 'malloc's memory but fails to 'free' it when it is no longer needed looses track of the memory it has requested and is said to "leak".

Regards!

...JRF...

[Laurent Laperrousaz]

there are some tools to track memory leakage, one of them is valgrind (only on Linux) see http://valgrind.org/
for HP-UX you can use Rational Purify:
http://www-306.ibm.com/software/awdtools/purifyplus/

[Indrajit_1]

Hi All;

Thanks all of you.

Cheers
Indrajit Roy