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leak-detection
- Oct 14, 2026 Reachability, Retention, and What Counts as a Leak Why unreachable memory and unfreed memory are different problems, how a tracing collector decides an object is dead, and where conservative roots keep garbage alive. memory systems
- Dec 17, 2024 Leak Detection by Reachability Rather Than Allocation Count How heap profilers decide that a block is leaked: root sets, conservative scanning, and why a pointer held in a register or a stale stack slot changes the answer. systems programming
- 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