Re: How to find memory leaks from an running application

On jeudi 20 juin 2019 12:07:19 CEST Howard Chu wrote:
> David Chapman wrote:
> > On 6/19/2019 10:34 PM, subhasish Karmakar wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >> 
> >> I have an application running on embedded linux.
> >> After running for hours my application causes out of memory issue.
> >> How can I get memory leak report periodically when the application is
> >> running? It's a process with "while(1)" loop.
> 
> If your only problem is memory leaks and no other concerns (such as out of
> bounds accesses, corruptions, etc.) then you should give
> https://github.com/hyc/mleak/ a try. It is faster than all other memory
> leak detectors out there, fast enough to run in production. And you can
> send it a periodic signal to get a snapshot of currently allocated memory.

Or, for another LD_PRELOAD-based tool with a really nice user interface on 
top, https://github.com/KDAB/heaptrack

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