I've used YourKit extensively for profiling and analysis and would highly recommend it .
Rob. On 17 Sep 2013, at 08:56, Andy Fingerhut <andy.finger...@gmail.com> wrote: > Some of the hits point at commercial tools, which you didn't mention. > > I've heard positive comments about YourKit in the past. It is commercial, > but it looks pretty easy to get a 15-day evaluation license. I haven't used > it, but it claims to have some features to aid in detecting and analyzing > memory leaks: http://www.yourkit.com/docs/80/help/memory_leaks.jsp > > I also saw hits for a tool called plumbr. I have no information about it, > good or bad. > > Andy > > > > > On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 8:45 AM, Brian Craft <craft.br...@gmail.com> wrote: > I did, of course, spend a lot of time with google before posting. All of the > hits point to jconsole, jmap, and visualvm. None of these tools work > reliably. They hang, they crash, they spit up errors, they generate useless > results. You'll note in another thread this morning another developer having > jmap and visualvm barf on them. It's not an isolated incident. > > > On Tuesday, September 17, 2013 8:21:14 AM UTC-7, Andy Fingerhut wrote: > Another possibility: The people who know aren't reading this thread. > > I'd tell you if I knew, but I haven't needed to track down a problem like > this for several years, and forgotten whatever tool I used at the time (it > was probably jmap). > > Suggestion: Google search "java memory leak" and see what tools and > techniques people suggest in articles they write on the topic. > > Andy > > > On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 8:07 AM, Brian Craft <craft...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Thursday, September 12, 2013 7:47:02 PM UTC-7, Cedric Greevey wrote: > On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 3:33 PM, Andy Fingerhut <andy.fi...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have just added some discussion of this on ClojureDocs.org for the function > clojure.core/subs, and references to that discussion for several other > Clojure functions that I am pretty sure are affected, e.g. re-find, re-seq, > re-matches, clojure.string/split, replace, replace-first > > We know with certainty that clojure.string/split is affected. Also, the OP's > question about how to use tooling to track down similar leaks in the future > does not appear to have been satisfactorily answered as of yet. > > cricket, cricket, cricket... > > ;) > > Is there really no working tooling for the jvm? > > The string thing bothers me less than the problem of seq heads. It is > ridiculously easy to create a memory leak with a seq, and desperately hard to > track one down. I would be surprised if most clojure apps were not leaking > memory somewhere, in places that go unnoticed until a sufficiently large > input fills the heap. > > I wonder if a static analysis approach could identify code that appears to > retain a seq head to no effect. > > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clo...@googlegroups.com > > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your > first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+u...@googlegroups.com > > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Clojure" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to clojure+u...@googlegroups.com. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your > first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Clojure" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your > first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Clojure" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. 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