Valgrind 是一款 Linux下（支持 x86、x86_64和ppc32）程序的内存调试工具，它可以对编译后的二进制程序进行内存使用监测（C语言中的malloc和free，以及C++中的new和delete），找出内存泄漏问题。
Valgrind 中包含的 Memcheck 工具可以检查以下的程序错误：
使用未初始化的内存 (Use of uninitialised memory)
使用已经释放了的内存 (Reading/writing memory after it has been free’d)
使用超过malloc分配的内存空间(Reading/writing off the end of malloc’d blocks)
对堆栈的非法访问 (Reading/writing inappropriate areas on the stack)
申请的空间是否有释放 (Memory leaks – where pointers to malloc’d blocks are lost forever)
malloc/free/new/delete申请和释放内存的匹配(Mismatched use of malloc/new/new [] vs free/delete/delete [])
src和dst的重叠(Overlapping src and dst pointers in memcpy() and related functions)
重复free
1、编译安装 Valgrind：
wget http://valgrind.org/downloads/valgrind-3.4.1.tar.bz2
tar xvf valgrind-3.4.1.tar.bz2
cd valgrind-3.4.1/
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/webserver/valgrind
make
make install
tar xvf valgrind-3.4.1.tar.bz2
cd valgrind-3.4.1/
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/webserver/valgrind
make
make install
2、使用示例：对“ls”程序进程检查，返回结果中的“definitely lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks.”表示没有内存泄漏。
[root@xoyo42 /]# /usr/local/webserver/valgrind/bin/valgrind --tool=memcheck --leak-check=full ls /
==1157== Memcheck, a memory error detector.
==1157== Copyright (C) 2002-2008, and GNU GPL'd, by Julian Seward et al.
==1157== Using LibVEX rev 1884, a library for dynamic binary translation.
==1157== Copyright (C) 2004-2008, and GNU GPL'd, by OpenWorks LLP.
==1157== Using valgrind-3.4.1, a dynamic binary instrumentation framework.
==1157== Copyright (C) 2000-2008, and GNU GPL'd, by Julian Seward et al.
==1157== For more details, rerun with: -v
==1157==
bin data0 dev home lib64 media mnt opt root selinux sys tcsql.db.idx.pkey.dec ttserver.pid var
boot data1 etc lib lost+found misc net proc sbin srv tcsql.db tmp usr
==1157==
==1157== ERROR SUMMARY: 0 errors from 0 contexts (suppressed: 5 from 1)
==1157== malloc/free: in use at exit: 28,471 bytes in 36 blocks.
==1157== malloc/free: 166 allocs, 130 frees, 51,377 bytes allocated.
==1157== For counts of detected errors, rerun with: -v
==1157== searching for pointers to 36 not-freed blocks.
==1157== checked 174,640 bytes.
==1157==
==1157== LEAK SUMMARY:
==1157== definitely lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks.
==1157== possibly lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks.
==1157== still reachable: 28,471 bytes in 36 blocks.
==1157== suppressed: 0 bytes in 0 blocks.
==1157== Reachable blocks (those to which a pointer was found) are not shown.
==1157== To see them, rerun with: --leak-check=full --show-reachable=yes
==1157== Memcheck, a memory error detector.
==1157== Copyright (C) 2002-2008, and GNU GPL'd, by Julian Seward et al.
==1157== Using LibVEX rev 1884, a library for dynamic binary translation.
==1157== Copyright (C) 2004-2008, and GNU GPL'd, by OpenWorks LLP.
==1157== Using valgrind-3.4.1, a dynamic binary instrumentation framework.
==1157== Copyright (C) 2000-2008, and GNU GPL'd, by Julian Seward et al.
==1157== For more details, rerun with: -v
==1157==
bin data0 dev home lib64 media mnt opt root selinux sys tcsql.db.idx.pkey.dec ttserver.pid var
boot data1 etc lib lost+found misc net proc sbin srv tcsql.db tmp usr
==1157==
==1157== ERROR SUMMARY: 0 errors from 0 contexts (suppressed: 5 from 1)
==1157== malloc/free: in use at exit: 28,471 bytes in 36 blocks.
==1157== malloc/free: 166 allocs, 130 frees, 51,377 bytes allocated.
==1157== For counts of detected errors, rerun with: -v
==1157== searching for pointers to 36 not-freed blocks.
==1157== checked 174,640 bytes.
==1157==
==1157== LEAK SUMMARY:
==1157== definitely lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks.
==1157== possibly lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks.
==1157== still reachable: 28,471 bytes in 36 blocks.
==1157== suppressed: 0 bytes in 0 blocks.
==1157== Reachable blocks (those to which a pointer was found) are not shown.
==1157== To see them, rerun with: --leak-check=full --show-reachable=yes