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
> 
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