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Postmortem Memory Profiling with Perl

Posted by michael on from the it's-dead-larry dept.

Irish writes "Problems with memory, such as leaks and memory-greedy applications can cause many problems for application developers; more so for wireless applications due to the prevalence of memory-constrained devices as platforms. This article shows you how to avoid memory problems and it shows how to use Perl script to analyze memory issues for later repair. It offers three progressively more sophisticated solutions to demonstrate the concept."

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  1. Reinventing the wheel by isj · · Score: 4, Informative

    The author has reinvented the wheel. Any debug heap that provides a trace can do this, so this is basically an old hat.
    http://www.cbmamiga.demon.co.uk/mpatrol/mpat rol_83 .html provides a very good list of resources for debug heaps.