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footprint
- Aug 21, 2026 Reading a Process Footprint: RSS, PSS, and Shared Pages Why resident set size double-counts shared pages, how proportional set size divides them between users, and which memory a process consumes that no per-process counter attributes to it. memory systems
- May 15, 2026 Shrinking Footprint with Narrow Handles and Inline Storage How pointer-width reduction, index handles, and inline small-object storage cut the bytes a traversal must move, and what each technique costs in indirection. performance engineering
- Oct 10, 2025 Fragmentation Without Leaks: Diagnosing a Growing Heap Why a process whose live set is flat can still grow, how internal and external fragmentation differ in cause and cure, and which counters distinguish the two. memory systems
- Apr 3, 2024 Detecting Slow Growth in a Long-Running Process How to separate a genuine slow leak from allocator sawtooth and from legitimate growth, using slope estimation, idle baselines, and live-set accounting rather than a single threshold. memory systems