More Tools and Features for Debugging Leaks

As previously mentioned, each program handles memory differently, and memory leaks can happen in many situations and contexts. So, it is good to have a variety of tools and options to debug memory leaks. In this lesson, we’ll discuss some more ideas to tackle memory leaks.

Memory monitoring

Monitoring the memory usage of various processes in a product is a must in any situation. However, monitoring the graphs or charts manually and endlessly is error-prone and tedious. It is better to have a system that monitors and acts on this memory usage as much as possible. There are a variety of actions available as options when the memory usage of a process is growing:

• Printing warnings in the logs: This is probably the weakest action possible because it does not help alleviate the issue. However, it does help later when debugging the issue with the logs to check for any correlation.