Systems and methods may provide for conducting an object trace of an allocation status of one or more objects in a computing system and using one or more hardware performance counters to conduct a hardware based address profiling of the computing system. Additionally, one or more stale objects in the system may be automatically identified based on the object trace and the hardware based address profiling. In one example, the object trace is initiated prior to a start of a task on the computing system and the hardware based address profiling is initiated in response to an end of the task on the computing system.