To my Cocoa Keepers file. Bill thank you very much, I didn't know what Heapshot did and what the output meant. Now I do.
On 18-Oct-2010, at 11:52 AM, Bill Bumgarner wrote: > Folks-- > > I wrote up an article on how to use the "Mark Heap" / "Heapshot > Analysis" tools in Instruments to detect, analyze, and fix memory leaks, > including those that leaks can't find. > > > http://www.friday.com/bbum/2010/10/17/when-is-a-leak-not-a-leak-using-heapshot-analysis-to-find-undesirable-memory-growth/ > > I would encourage everyone to give it a spin with your app. If it is > document based, then: > > - launch your app under Instruments with the Allocations Instrument > - (1) open a document > - select a thing, copy, paste > - close the document (without saving) > - press Mark Heap in Instruments > - goto (1) > > Ideally, each "Heapshot" iteration should show 0 growth in almost all cases. > > enjoy, > b.bum > > _______________________________________________ > > Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) > > Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. > Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com > > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/rols%40rols.org > > This email sent to r...@rols.org _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com