KDE/heaptrack

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Heaptrack is a heap memory profiler for Linux that traces every memory allocation and annotates it with a stack trace. It ships with command-line and GUI analysis tools that interpret the recorded profile to reveal memory leaks, allocation hotspots, and temporary allocations.

Use cases

• find memory leaks in a C++ application
• profile heap memory allocations on linux
• reduce my application's memory footprint
• find which code locations allocate the most memory
• detect excessive temporary allocations that churn the heap
• attach a memory profiler to an already running process
• record memory traces on an embedded linux device and analyze them later

When to choose

• You need heap-level allocation tracing with stack traces for native Linux applications
• You are hunting memory leaks, allocation hotspots, or temporary allocations in C/C++ code
• You profile embedded targets without debug symbols and want to interpret traces later against a sysroot

When to avoid

• You need CPU, GPU, or I/O profiling rather than heap memory analysis
• You develop on Windows or macOS, since heaptrack is Linux-only
• You need to profile managed runtimes like the JVM or JavaScript rather than native allocations

Facets

cli-tool · maturity active

tracing monitoring developer-tools cli gui developer-tools performance cli embedded cpp memory-profiler heap-analysis memory-leak-detection allocation-tracking stack-traces performance-profiling kde gdb-injection valgrind-alternative command-line linux desktop

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