Philippe Gaultier 12/21/2025

Detecting goroutine leaks with DTrace

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This article explains how to detect goroutine leaks in Go using DTrace, especially when newer profiling tools are unavailable. It covers the problem of leaked goroutines, demonstrates tracing their creation and destruction with DTrace scripts, and discusses approaches to track blocked goroutines. The content is a deep dive into Go runtime internals and practical debugging techniques.

Detecting goroutine leaks with DTrace

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