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

There is a free, open source tool called chap that will do most of what you want. It specifically will not give you stack traces, but it is an extremely light weight tool because it doesn't require any instrumentation at all. All you need is to be able to grab a live core of the process in question, at a point at which you believe the process has already exhibited the bug (so you believe that it has leaked or is too large or whatever).

For details, see https://github.com/vmware/chap