> Electric Fence may cover a large portion of what Purify does. I have used > it a number of times and I found it very effective. > > Search http://freshmeat.net for it or if you use Debian: > > apt-get install electric-fence
efence is necessary but not sufficient. You may also try ccmalloc. It does good stuff too. I don't know if efence and ccmalloc can be run TOGETHER, but when I have serious memory-using programs, I have a make target for each efence and ccmalloc. Tim
