[FFmpeg-user] Guidance on debugging a potential memory leak

[Pavel Koshevoy]

On 9/1/22 13:26, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
> Am Do., 1. Sept. 2022 um 21:16 Uhr schrieb Jorge Villatoro via
> ffmpeg-user <ffmpeg-user at ffmpeg.org>:
>> If you'd like to call it something else that's fine with me, but it's clear
>> that the memory usage of the process escalates over time
> Which is not unusual for applications writing multimedia files.
>
> massif (another memcheck tool) allows you to see which functions
> allocate the memory.


I can recommend heaptrack
https://milianw.de/blog/heaptrack-a-heap-memory-profiler-for-linux.html