experiment: gcdump reading #4265
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What if we read the gcdump, then augment the low memory event with the top offending types
Not sure how much memory would take to do this in-memory in a process that just triggered a memory dump for being out of memory
It probably needs to be done on a separate process. Or only on restart?
Or on the server, at ingestion time. Considering the mess it would be to get this into the SDK (I had to hack a lot to get it to run) it might be better doing this as a stand alone library, and load it during ingestion time in Sentry when processing
gcdump
files.Required hacks on perfview too: