How I can detect memory leaks of C++ application in Linux (Ubuntu OS)?

Question

How I can detect memory leaks of C++ application in Linux (Ubuntu OS) ? What is the program you can advise me for this goal ?

Solution 1

Check out Valgrind, it should be in the Ubuntu repository. it can give you detailed information about memory usage in C++ programs. Kind of like a debugger for memory usage.

valgrind --tool=memcheck <your_app> <your_apps_params>

Solution 2

Use Valgrind for that purpose.

Solution 3

also may look ccmalloc, NJAMD, mpatrol, YAMD, LeakTracer

Solution 4

If open source software isn't mandatory you could also check out Purify

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