What is memory leak and how you will find memory leak ?

Which tools can be used to find out memory leak ?

Answer Posted / sunil

Memory leak is common bug in object oriented programming,
when few block of memory is been reserved by programm and
not been released even the use of that memory block is
over , called memory leak,Eg:-An object has been created in
java programm but due to some functionality of the programm
the refrence to that object has been deleted. so the object
can not be access by any way and hense hogging memory and
creating memroy leak.

Load runner tool can be used for monitoring.

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