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Memory Leak (and Growth) Flame Graphs

Memory Leak

Memory Flame Graph    

Your application memory usage is steadily growing, and you are racing against time to fix it. This could either be memory growth due to a misconfig, or a memory leak due to a software bug. For some applications, performance can begin to degrade as garbage collection works harder, consuming CPU. If an application grows too large, performance can drop off a cliff due to paging (swapping), or the application may be killed by the system (OOM killer). You want to take a quick look before either occurs, in case it’s an easy fix. But how?

Debugging growth issues involves checking the application config and memory usage, either from application or system tools. Memory leaks are much …

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