How to identify native memory leaks in a Java application using Valgrind

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Java applications normally use memory from the separate JVM-managed heap. Native code, including the JVM internals and native OS libraries, usually allocate memory from the C/C++ heap managed by the standard c library, which on Red Hat Enteprise Linux that would be the GNU libc library.

When memory usage of the Java heap is higher than normal, you can

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