Hi,
as I didn't remember the name of the tool and maybe as future reference to
myself. I have installed RefsHunter from the catalogue and it helped me a lot.
I was looking at the memory consumption of my Pharo6.0 image and did something
crazy like counting how many objects exist of a specific class (Object
allSubInstances copy do.. and put that into a dictionary). I noticed that for
the ASN1 model the nodes of the parse tree survived. Yesterday I tried to use
the pointer explorer but then most references are held by the UI code and I
gave up after a bit.
Today I found the RefsHunter again and something as simple (found through the
class comments)
| rh |
rh := RefsHunter snapshot.
rh wayFrom: ASN1AssignmentNode allInstances first to: myAsn1Model
Brings me to a list of references and when searching the list from the end to
the beginning gives a pretty good picture of where things go wrong.
Great to have a platform that allows to walk the heap and great that there are
tools that make it manageable!
have a nice weekend
holger
