An earlier article [“Memory Leak Detection in Embedded Systems”, LJ, September 2002, available at www.linuxjournal.com/article/6059] discussed the detection of ...

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Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. I don’t know anyone who likes investigating a Java heap dump. They can be massive — literally ...

Workloads are increasingly architected as highly distributed components that may be executing on physical, virtual or cloud environments. Discovering and fixing performance issue can become an almost ...

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The Java automatic garbage collection process typically operates as a low-priority thread that constantly searches memory for unreachable objects, objects not referenced by any other object reachable ...

As a programmer, I’m aware that I tend to make mistakes — and why not? Even programmers are human. Some errors are detected during code compilation, while others ...

It's a very common service call: A leaky system has lost refrigerant. Normally this problem is quite simple to diagnose. However, locating the source of the leak can be difficult. Technicians can use ...

I get to work on a number of fairly large vb6 applications, I've run into a situation where there was a pretty major overhaul of one of the applications. Now I think there is a pretty big memory leak ...