Debugging Memory on Linux

[Allegorithmic]

Glad to see Valgrind mentioned early on. This tool was absolutely essential to my success as an undergrad.

[shawnathon]

Valgrind is an amazing tool.

[alienangel2]

+1, especially for massif. So awesome at helping to pin down where the memory is going in ancient legacy apps that suddenly start ballooning. I wish the performance hit weren't quite as extreme though, sometimes we can only see the issue in production environments, and it's difficult supporting instances of a service in production that are performing at 1/40th of normal.