Low-overhead memory leak detection using adaptive statistical profiling

Operating Systems Review (ACM)

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 156-164

  Chilimbi, Trishul M ^a   Hauswirth, Matthias ^b  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UCB 450   (United States)

Author keywords

Low overhead monitoring; Memory leaks; Runtime analysis

Indexed keywords

LOW-OVERHEAD MONITORING; MEMORY LEAKS; RUNTIME ANALYSIS;

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; CODES (SYMBOLS); OPTIMIZATION; PROGRAM DEBUGGING; STATISTICAL METHODS;

STORAGE ALLOCATION (COMPUTER);

EID: 33845462395     PISSN: 01635980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1037949.1024412     Document Type: Conference Paper

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