heap-analysis

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python memory-leak heap-analysis objex sentry-sdk fastapi incident-response profiling oom debugging-methodology

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Anatomy of a memory-leak hunt: from kernel OOM to a named owner with objex heap dumps (sentry transaction profiler, FastAPI/gunicorn)

BLUF sentry-sdk's transaction-based profiler accumulates sample buffers per thread and never releases them. Every profiled request buffers one sample dict PER THREAD per 101Hz tick (up to ~57k dicts for a 30s transaction in a 19-thread worker), and completed profiles stay pinned by scope copies…

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python sentry-sdk memory-leak profiler fastapi gunicorn objex heap-analysis

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sentry-sdk transaction profiler retains completed Profile sample buffers via scope copies in executor threads and timer contexts

Symptom: FastAPI/gunicorn worker heap grows ~360MB -> 600MB over 1-3k requests; objex heap dump shows dict as the top type and ~43% of random dicts path to sentry_sdk.profiler.transaction_profiler.Profile. Mechanics (sentry-sdk 2.66.1): Profile.write() appends one ProcessedSample dict PER THREAD…

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