This small article describe how to track memory leaks using 'gdb' on Linux. If you are using products like 'db2' or any other product that has it's own memory management routines then you should first track possible leaks at the product level using the tools it provides. For 'db2' that would be 'db2pd' for example. This article therefore applies only to memory leaks at the 'malloc()' level, that is blocks of memory allocated using 'malloc()' but never freed.   Remember that a debugger is... [More]

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