MemLeak

A x-plat command line tool that generates a simple visual representation of strongly connected components- which could be an indication of a potential memory leak. Especially helpful when application is walking the bridge between managed and unmanaged memory.

How to use MemLeak

sample command: analyze -dump="20230729_134428_16855.gcdump"

From a functional perspective

• input: path to app (our use case specifically MAUI app)
• process:
  • run app
  • invoke new mono supported dotnet-gcdump
  • collect the dump/report
  • use inspo from PerfView/VS/Tarjan's algo to detect strongly connected cycles
• output: from cycle analysis, present objects that are culprits for the cycles
  • initial iteration: just display details of cycle
  • [wip] using something like graphviz or a console library to diagram the cycle