KDE/heaptrack
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A heap memory profiler for Linux
9 mentions on Hacker News by 8 people: 2 stories, 7 comments · first 2017-02-28 · latest 2026-04-27
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…thing would be reserved to GC-based languages where they keep track of counts for each object. 1: https://github.com/kde/heaptrack
comment by JavierFlores09 · 2026-04-27 · in Box to save memory in Rust -
If we are talking replacing the libc allocator, then something like heaptrack is worth mentioning. https://github.com/KDE/heaptrack
comment by planede · 2023-12-18 · in Tracking Java native memory with JDK flight recorder -
https://valgrind.org/docs/manual/ms-manual.html https://github.com/KDE/heaptrack https://elinux.org/Electric_Fence https://github.com/google/sanitizers/wiki
comment by andrewfromx · 2023-11-18 · in Ask HN: Are There Viewers for Memory Layout? -
…where most of the temporary allocations happened, leading to the culprit of the fragmentation. [1] https://github.com/KDE/heaptrack
comment by planede · 2023-03-08 · in Lessons learned from 15 years of SumatraPDF, an open source Windows app (2021) -
Could you compare/contrast its functionality to https://github.com/KDE/heaptrack ?
comment by catskul2 · 2023-02-15 · in Show HN: I wrote a tool in Rust for tracking all allocations in a Linux process -
No, but you can use the docker script I use to generate the AppImage as a basis: https://github.com/KDE/heaptrack/blob/master/tools/Dockerfil...
comment by milianw · 2018-05-23 · in Heaptrack Linux memory profiler v1.1.0 released -
In case someone is looking for the equivalent on Linux and Mac, there is HeapTrack https://github.com/KDE/heaptrack edit: typo
comment by Elv13 · 2017-08-26 · in MTuner is a C/C++ memory profiler and memory leak finder