How to Diagnose and Fix Memory Leaks in a Containerized Image Thumbnail Service
This guide walks through a systematic, step‑by‑step process for identifying, analyzing, and resolving memory‑related incidents in a high‑traffic thumbnail generation service running in Kubernetes, covering everything from initial symptom checks with free and vmstat to deep dives using smem, pmap, smaps, perf, and post‑mortem verification.
