Lightweight memory leak debugging on linux

Question

I looked for existing answers first and saw that Valgrind is everyone’s favorite tool for memory leak debugging on linux. Unfortunately Valgrind does not seem

Answer 1

You might also consider using Google's gperftools, which has a heap profiler that can be loaded via LD_PRELOAD. You can also link in its tcmalloc and leak checker into your binary, and enable them only when needed.

For details, see https://github.com/gperftools/gperftools

Answer 2

memleax should work for you.

It debugs memory leak of a running process by attaching it, without recompiling program or restarting target process. It's very convenient and suitable for production environment.

It TRAPs only for malloc/free() calls, so it should bring less performace impact than Vagrild.

It works on GNU/Linux-x86_64 and FreeBSD-amd64.

NOTE: I'm the author, any suggestion is welcomed