I have a program that I intend to run for days or weeks at a time, but it is being killed by the OS after a day or so, I think because it is using up too much memory (growing over time). I would like to be able to debug the memory leak and find out where it is happening, so I can fix it.
What tools, modules, or procedures do you recommend for tracking down a memory leak? The program itself is short, but uses a multitude of modules, some of which are custom built for this program, and some that are open source. What seems ideal to me would be to have a list of which objects exist, with snapshots of that over time, so I can see which objects are growing in number, and which are staying relatively stable. Or maybe there is something better. What do you recommend? I tried using Telemetry[1] max-rss to see if I could detect memory increases, but the number returned from that stays constant over the course of the program running. Looking at the output from top, it shows a slow increase in memory usage over time. [1]: https://docs.raku.org/type/Telemetry.html Most everything in the program is stored within a central object, and outputting a snapshot of that every few minutes shows it growing and shrinking over time, and it is not steadily increasing. -kolibrie
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