[plt-scheme] tools for determining memory leak?

From: Jay McCarthy (jay.mccarthy at gmail.com)
Date: Thu Feb 5 17:32:21 EST 2009

Yes, dump-memory-stats is what I mean. When you compile with
backtracing, you'll get additional options from dms.

Jay

On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 3:21 PM, YC <yinso.chen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Jay McCarthy <jay.mccarthy at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> The memory backtracing that is built into mzscheme works well.
>
> Are you referring to `dump-memory-stats`?  That's the only facility that I
> was able to find.  Is there something else that I can use?
>
>>
>> Most likely, you have large continuations and they are not being freed
>> in a timely way. What manager are you using?
>
> I am fairly certain this is not caused solely by web-server - I am using LRU
> manager and quite happy with its behavior.
>
> My challenge is that I wrote a ton of code without noticing the behavior, so
> am at a loss to track down the problem quickly.  My current approach is to
> reconstruct the code in chunks, hopefully to isolate the leak point, and
> this process is just slow.
>
> Thanks,
> yc
>
>



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