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memory leak

A condition caused by a program that does not free up the extra memory it allocates. In programming languages, such as C/C++, the programmer can dynamically allocate additional memory to hold data and variables that are required for the moment, but not used throughout the program. When those memory areas are no longer needed, the programmer must remember to deallocate them.

When memory is allocated, but not deallocated, a memory leak occurs (the memory has leaked out of the computer). If too many memory leaks occur, they can usurp all of memory and bring everything to a halt or slow the processing considerably. In other environments, such as Java, the operating system allocates and deallocates memory automatically. Specifically allocating and deallocating memory, while error prone (in case one forgets to deallocate), allows the programmer more control over the computer's resources. See garbage collection.

(programming)

memory leak - A leak in a program's dynamic store allocation logic that causes it to fail to reclaim memory in the heap after it has finished using it, eventually causing the program to fail due to lack of memory.

These problems were severe on older machines with small, fixed-size address spaces, and special "leak detection" tools were written to diagnose them.

The introduction of virtual memory made memory leaks a less serious problem, although if you run out of virtual memory, it means you've got a *real* leak!

See aliasing bug.

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No references found	Step one: You must make the application function correctly and solve the memory leak issues. Improving J2EE application performance. (Internet Focus) by Gains, Steve / Software World What users are saying "We have a known memory leak that took me about four hours to find using our current tool, so I fired up the new version of yoursONot only did I come to the conclusion much faster, but I found another one Red Gate's New ANTS Memory Profiler 5: "Freaking Sweet" to Find ... by Business Wire Year after year Insure continues to be the leading memory leak detection solution that finds the most elusive memory errors. Parasoft Releases Insure++ 7.0 for Novell SUSE LINUX Enterprise ... by Business Wire	memory bank memory based memory buffer register memory capacity memory card memory card reader memory cell memory chip memory compression memory contention memory core memory cycle memory cycle time memory dump memory dump routine memory effect memory element memory expansion card memory farts memory fill memory footprint memory gap memory guard memory hierarchy memory interleaving memory leak memory location memory lockout register memory management Memory Management Unit memory manager memory map memory map list memory mapped I/O memory mapping memory module memory module configurations memory overlay memory port memory power memory print memory printout memory protect Memory Protection memory RAID memory register memory resident memory scrubbing memory search routine memory smash memory sniffer	Memory Foam System Memory footprint Memory Form Definition Block memory gap Memory Grant Manager memory guard Memory hierarchy Memory Hierarchy Analysis and Optimization Tools for the End-User Memory Hierarchy Layer Assignment Memory Identifier memory image memory image memory impairment screen Memory in Cassette Memory Initialization File Memory Input/Output Memory Interface Card Memory Interface Component Memory Interface Controller Memory Interface Generator Memory Interface Unit memory interleaving Memory isolation Memory Kernel Unit Memory key Memory key memory leak Memory leaks Memory Load Memory Load Command Memory Loader Verifier Set Memory Loader/Verifier Memory location Memory location Memory location Memory location memory lockout register Memory Look-Up memory loss memory lymphocyte memory lymphocyte memory lymphocyte Memory Lymphocyte Immuno-Stimulation Assay Memory management Memory management Memory Management Control Operations Memory management hardware Memory Management System Memory Management Toolkit Memory management unit Memory management unit Memory management units Memory manager Memory manager Memory map Memory map memory map list

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Step one: You must make the application function correctly and solve the memory leak issues.

Improving J2EE application performance. (Internet Focus) by Gains, Steve / Software World

What users are saying "We have a known memory leak that took me about four hours to find using our current tool, so I fired up the new version of yoursONot only did I come to the conclusion much faster, but I found another one

Red Gate's New ANTS Memory Profiler 5: "Freaking Sweet" to Find ... by Business Wire

Year after year Insure continues to be the leading memory leak detection solution that finds the most elusive memory errors.

Parasoft Releases Insure++ 7.0 for Novell SUSE LINUX Enterprise ... by Business Wire

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