Go Memory Leak Guide
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This comprehensive guide for Go memory leak detection and prevention is currently being developed.
We welcome contributions from the community! If you'd like to help write this guide, please:
- Fork the repository
- Create your content following our documentation standards
- Submit a pull request
This guide will cover:
- Go-specific memory leak patterns
- Goroutine leak detection and prevention
- Memory profiling with pprof
- Garbage collector optimization
- Production monitoring strategies
What Will Be Covered
Go Memory Management
- Go memory model and garbage collector
- Stack vs heap allocation
- Escape analysis
- Memory layout and alignment
Common Go Memory Leak Patterns
- Goroutine leaks (blocked or infinite goroutines)
- Slice capacity issues and memory retention
- Map key accumulation
- Channel buffer leaks
- Defer statement accumulation
- Time.After in loops
Go-Specific Tools
- go tool pprof - Built-in profiling tool
- go tool trace - Execution tracer
- runtime/pprof - Programmatic profiling
- net/http/pprof - HTTP profiling endpoint
- Continuous profiling (Pyroscope, Grafana Phlare)
Production Monitoring
- Setting up pprof endpoints
- Memory monitoring dashboards
- Alerting on memory usage
- Performance regression detection
Framework-Specific Considerations
- Gin/Echo web frameworks
- gRPC services
- Database connection pools
- Microservices patterns
Contributing
This documentation is open for contributions. Please see our Contributing Guidelines for more information.
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