how to troubleshoot a memory leak in a app

[OutHouse]

we have a custom app that has always had a memory leak. but the past two weeks it has gotten worse.

The developers say they dont have time to look at it, is there a way or method I could use to try to troubleshoot this?

 

[jamesL70]

There are any number of tools that the developers should be using to find these memory leaks.

Here are a couple:

BoundsChecker
www.numega.com

Purify
www.rational.com

JamesL

 

[Matthias99]

There's also LeakCheck for linux, and, if you develop on Solaris, dbx has memory leak tracing facilities. Visual Studio (at least VC++) can trace memory leaks, but it's sort of a pain.

Tell your developers to get off their lazy butts and do something about it.