No one is going to be able to help you unless you can provide the application together with steps to reproduce your problems or if you can show those problems occurring with a sample application that comes with NetBeans, e.g., the Anagram Game.
Gj On Sat, Nov 24, 2018 at 10:16 AM Owen Thomas <owen.paul.tho...@gmail.com> wrote: > Looks like I'm getting confused and dismayed with my attempts to run the > profiler. Any help from any NetBeans user would be appreciated. > > Thanks, > > Owen. > > ---------- Forwarded message --------- > From: Owen Thomas <owen.paul.tho...@gmail.com> > Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2018 at 20:11 > Subject: Re: Novice Profiling Question. > To: <v...@ricker.us> > > > This is strange... > > When I start my application from the profiler with the profile view set to > Objects, I see the objects that make up my application. I can switch the > view to Telemetry, and the telemetry view appears. But when I switch the > view back to Objects, nothing appears. > > Instead, I get the following in my application console output: > > Profiler Agent Error: Exception when handling command from client: > java.io.IOException: JFluid wire protocol error: code does not correspond > to command or response. Value -1 > Profiler Agent: Connection with agent closed > > I ensured the application was completely compiled by selecting Clean and > Build from the projects menu before I ran it. I'm finding this perhaps a > little confusing... > > > On Sat, 24 Nov 2018 at 17:40, Vic Ricker <v...@ricker.us> wrote: > >> Did you check the objects being created? Do they interact with anything >> else? (passing references to themselves, or their methods, maybe lambdas? >> to other things that can't be garbage collected?) Doesn't the profiler >> tell what's holding the references? >> On 11/24/18 12:34 AM, Owen Thomas wrote: >> >> Thanks for the tip. I have just tried it. Unfortunately (a bit >> surprisingly too) it hasn't worked. I call gc every 10 seconds. The number >> of objects I see still seems to grow without limit. >> >> On Sat, 24 Nov 2018 at 15:47, Vic Ricker <v...@ricker.us> wrote: >> >>> Did you try forcing garbage collection with System.gc()? Those >>> allocations may not be leaked. It may be that the GC hasn't got to them >>> yet. >>> >>> >>> On 11/23/18 11:19 PM, Owen Thomas wrote: >>> > Hello NetBeans Users. >>> > >>> > An application that I am developing seems to be slowly leaking memory, >>> > and I have been given some advice that makes me think that the best >>> > way to get to the bottom of this problem is by running an instance of >>> > my application in the profile. >>> > >>> > I can do that, and as just as I thought, I am seeing particular type >>> > types of objects being created but not being destroyed by the garbage >>> > collector. I've walked though my code many times, and as far as I can >>> > see, never do I assign the object to a variable that has any scope >>> > other than method scope. I can't see why they wouldn't be gc'd, but >>> > indeed this is not happening, and I am wondering if this is because I >>> > am setting these objects to a variable that persists beyond method >>> scope. >>> > >>> > My question (I suppose it's very simple), is this: how do I get the >>> > references to objects I see in my profiler? >>> >>