cgoleak: A ebpf based memory leak detector for CGO program

The go pprof only shows the memory which is allocated by the go-runtime, so cgo allocations go un-noticed, which makes hard to debug cgo memeory leaks. This project aims to help developers to detect memory leaks in go program with c bindings.

Usage

cgoleak is a tool to detect memory leaks in Go applications with cgo

Usage:
  cgoleak [flags]

Flags:
  -h, --help           help for cgoleak
      --interval int   interval to check for leaks (default 5)
      --path string    path to the binary
      --pid int        pid of the process

How this is different from similar projects?

This program is a trimmed version of bcc's memleak.py to fulfill the needs of the go developer.

The memleak.py counts both runtime allocation and cgo allocation. It can only store a fixed number of samples. So it drops cgo samples when it doesn't meet the sampling requirements. This makes memleak.py unusable for go developers usecase.

On the flip side, cgoleak only tracks cgo allocations. This project aims to solve go developer needs rather than being a generic memory leak detector.