Memory Leaks: The Full Taxonomy

Logosofia no Dia a Dia · Sep 1, 2026 · 31m

Memory leaks aren't just "forgot to free." This episode breaks down the full taxonomy — genuine unreachable allocations in C, logical leaks in garbage-collected languages where every byte is "reachable," heap fragmentation that draws a leak-shaped graph, and the non-heap leaks like file descriptors and zombie processes that crash services silently. We walk through real tooling for each failure mode — Valgrind, Massif, Chrome DevTools heap snapshots, Eclipse MAT, Go pprof, memray, and production profilers — plus how Linux picks its OOM victim, what cgroups v2 limits actually mean, and why the…