Hunting Leaks¶
Different tools and techniques are used to hunt leaks:
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BloatView is a tool that shows information about cumulative memory usage and leaks. |
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Refcount tracing and balancing are advanced techniques for tracking down leak of refcounted objects found with BloatView. |
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Garbage collector (GC) and cycle collector (CC) logs give information about why various JS and C++ objects are alive in the heap. |
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An introduction to leaked until shutdown leaks and how to use CC logs to investigate them. |
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Heap profiler within Firefox |