Tracking Down Memory Leaks

• Introduction
  • Is it a Leak?
  • Sources of Leaks
  • A Bit About (C)Python Memory Management
    • Reference Counts
    • Garbage Collection
    • The Big Picture
    • CPython’s Object Allocator (pymalloc)
• Tools for Detecting Memory Leaks
  • Platform Tools
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • macOS
  • Python Tools
    • Modules from the Standard Library
    • Third Party Modules
  • Debugging Tools
  • Building a Debug Version of Python
• Techniques
  • High Level
    • Using Platform Tools
    • Specific Tricks
  • Medium Level
    • Information From the sys Module
    • tracemalloc
    • objgraph
    • Specific Tricks
  • Low Level