Detecting memory leaks

Thu Sep 23 03:49:00 GMT 2004

A good first step is probably to determine whether the GC heap or the C
heap is growing. Setting the GC_PRINT_STATS and/or GC_DUMP_REGULARLY
environment variables should tell you that. (The latter produces lots of
output on large GC heaps.)
Hans
On 2004年9月22日, Jari Korva wrote:
> Hi,
>> are there any easy to use tools for finding gcj memory leaks, especially
> on ARM/XScale? For example the following code seems to leak on
> armv5l (gcj 3.4.0) and armv5b (gcj 3.4.2), but not on x86 (gcj 3.4.0):
>> import java.net.*;
>> public class MemLeakTest
> {
> public static void main(String args[])
> {
> for(;;)
> {
> try {
>> URL url = new URL("http://princess.willab.fi:8111/");
> URLConnection conn = url.openConnection();
> System.out.println(conn.getContentType());
> conn.getInputStream().close();
>> } catch(Exception e) {
> e.printStackTrace();
> }
> }
>> }
> }
>> Cheers,
> Jari
>> --
> - Jari Korva -
>