memory leak question

[cool_qt]

All,

I am working on mobile devices and encountering some weird problem. The problem follows:

There is a stress testing going on the phone. The phone is run to make calls for almost 24 hrs. After almost 23/24 hrs the phone crashes/panics. The initial analysis says there is memory leak due to which this panic is seen. The analysis says there is a memory of 0x54 bytes which is allocated by some application which is NOT deallocated. Some other app is trying to access this memory and since the memory is NOT deallocated the phone panics. Now since in the phone there are many application and there are hell lots of memory allocated/deallocated, how is it possible to detect this memory leak. I am looking for some hints which can help me root cause the issue. Can someone pls help me with this weird problem.

Thanks in advance

[wysota]

You have to at least pinpoint the process responsible for the leak... You can try substituting malloc() and free() calls with crafted functions that will do bookkeeping. Or run those applications on the desktop under Valgrind.

[cool_qt]

"You can try substituting malloc() and free() calls with crafted functions that will do bookkeeping"

Any examples?

[wysota]

I mean something like mpatrol (although there are better solutions than mpatrol itself):

http://mpatrol.sourceforge.net/