title: Detect and remove Memory Leak in Linux Application
body: <p>We have a a very large project which is basically an application which uses Linux Application programming and runs on PowerPC processor. This project was initially developed by another company. We acquired the project from the company and now we are maintaining the project. </p>
  
  <p>The application is reported to have a lot of <code>memory leak</code> issue. Since this is a large project, it is not possible to go to each source code file and find out the memory leak. We have used Valgrid, mpatrol and other memory leak detection tools. These tools did not help much and the memory leak has not decreased by a significant percentage.</p>
  
  <p>In this situation, how to go about to reduce the memory leak by a significant amount.Is there a <code>general method</code> which people use in these case to reduce the memory leak other than the memory leak detection tools like mentioned above.</p>