Memory Leaks: The Full Taxonomy

Memory leaks aren't just "forgot to free." This episode breaks down the full taxonomy — genuine unreachable allocations in C, logical leaks in garbage-collected languages where every byte is "reachable," heap fragmentation that draws a leak-shaped graph, and the non-heap leaks like file descriptors and zombie processes that crash services silently. We walk through real tooling for each failure mode — Valgrind, Massif, Chrome DevTools heap snapshots, Eclipse MAT, Go pprof, memray, and production profilers — plus how Linux picks its OOM victim, what cgroups v2 limits actually mean, and why the slope of the curve matters more than any single snapshot. If you've ever watched RSS climb and felt powerless, this one's for you. Episode #998116 — open it directly at myweirdprompts.com/998116