ALI group at UMass Group at UMass that includes the Object Systems Laboratory, an active memory management research group.
The GC-LIST FAQ A draft FAQ for the Garbage Collection mailing list. Contains a list of algorithms and techniques, related jargon, language interfaces, and challenging problems such as threading, distributed objects, persistency, and "uncooperative environments".
Inuse A graphical utility that allows you to watch a program allocate and free dynamic memory blocks, increasing your understanding of memory.
A Memory Allocator Article by Doug Lea about the design of his well-known "Lea" memory allocator.
IDH A debug heap for *nix. Captures buffer overwrites, memory leaks, stale pointers, most buffer underflows, and can provide statistics on block sizes.
Dmalloc Malloc replacement with debugging features.
The Hoard Multiprocessor Memory Allocator Hoard is a fast, scalable and memory-efficient malloc-replacement for multithreaded applications on multiprocessors. Widely-used, open-source.