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Re:Poireau: A Sampling Allocation Debugger by cure on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @08:58AM (#23234338)
Odd name, French for 'leek'. Maybe they were thinking of Poirot?
Re:Poireau: A Sampling Allocation Debugger by jnurmine on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @12:17PM (#23236594)
It's quite passing. They are looking for leaks ("leeks").

"The libpoireau library intercepts a small fraction of calls to malloc/calloc/etc., to generate a statistically representative overview of an application's heap footprint. While the interceptor currently only tracks long-lived allocations (e.g., leaks) ..."