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- From: ksand@apple.com (Kent Sandvik )
- Subject: Re: Memory Leaks
- Sender: news@gallant.apple.com
- Message-ID: <ksand-121292152746@wintermute.apple.com>
- Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 23:28:40 GMT
- References: <724192662.2890464@AppleLink.Apple.COM>
- Organization: (Evil Eye Creature from Mars, Inc.)
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- In article <724192662.2890464@AppleLink.Apple.COM>,
- DEWAELE.W@AppleLink.Apple.COM (De Waele Willy - Gent,BE,IHD) wrote:
- >
- > Hi Peter,
- >
- > On the Developer CD's, there is *somewhere* a 'dcmd' 'Leaks' which should be
- > copied/pasted into the 'Debugger Prefs' of MacsBug.
- > I didn't have time/occasion to experiment with this.
-
- The Swatch application is also handy for finding about leaky apps, just let
- it
- run in a window, and check out if the free heap numbers are mysteriously
- ticking down even if you are not doing anything. Even better, if you could
- figure out the size of the chunks that decrease, it might even give an
- indication what is really leaking (sometimes).
-
- Kent
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- Kent Sandvik (UUCP: ....!apple!ksand; INTERNET: ksand@apple.com)
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