On 8/7/09 5:06 PM, Tim Murison said:

>With GC, the memory use grows forever, without GC, it doesn't grow at all.
>Instruments tells me the garbage collector is responsible for allocating the
>leaking memory from within the collection routine, I think maybe instruments
>is confused, but it does confirm that the live object count grows without
>bound. You can see a small dip when GC kicks in.

Memory leak checking in GC apps (via either the 'leaks' command line
tool or via Instruments) is known to report mostly false positives.
Don't rely on it.

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Mac Software Developer              Montréal, Québec, Canada


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