Re: [Valgrind-users] Profiling memory

[Paulo M. G. <mo...@kd...>]

On Thursday 29 May 2008 15:39:34 Paul Walker wrote:
> On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 02:26:39PM +0100, Paulo Moura Guedes wrote:
> > but my application memory keeps groing. I would need to find out (filter)
> > the allocations which are not deallocated as time goes by. Any ideas on
> > how to find this information?
>
> Raymond Chen had a good tip for this. Make it leak, then look at the
> memory. If you're leaking something, then if you look at a few memory
> addresses, odds are you'll find the thing that's leaking.
>
> His explaination is better:
>
> http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2005/08/15/451752.aspx

I don't think I'm leaking memory. I think I have the references but the memory 
grows more than what I would expect. It's normal that it grows, because we're 
talking about a link checker, but I don't understand what could cause it to 
increase so rapidly.

Thanks,
Paulo