This is like windows task manager, except much more useful: http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/ProcessExplorer.html
One of the things it does is graph individual process memory usage over time. -David R On 9/27/05, John Grden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I thought Mike Chambers had an app that did this? anyone know Mike's > blog/link to that app? > > > On 9/27/05, Nick Griffiths < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've been developing a desktop app with flash player 7 that relies on > > XML for remote method invocation, and I noticed that it was extremely > > demanding on memory. To track usage I just used Task Manager with > > memory usage and VM usage turned on. A typical method call that > > returned a bunch of products would use about 2-3mb once the XML had been > > turned into client side objects. Even worse, the player would never > > free the memory used by the XML object. I think you have to be very > > careful with scope chains which can cause objects to hang around in the > > VM a lot longer that you would guess. If you search this list you'll > > find some posts where it was talked about. Try googling it - some one > > wrote a very good article on how scope chains work, and how they can > > cause objects to not be garbage collected. > > > > Flash Player 8 is incredibly more efficient with memory, and even solved > > the memory leak I had (It looked like something to do with XML not > > belonging to the stage - never could pin it down) Obviously, that is > > not much use to you. > > > > Start using LoadVars perhaps ? :) > > > > Tan wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I just wonder if anyone has come across the experience of tracking > > > Flash's memory usage. I recently started working with a lot of XML > > > data for Pocket PC device, Flash ran well on the desktop, but it kept > > > quitting Pocket PC miserably. I think some of that might have to do > > > with the limited memory of the device. > > > > > > Thanks! > > > > > > - Tangent > > > > > > > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > > >osflash mailing list > > > [email protected] > > >http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > osflash mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org > > > > > > -- > John Grden - Blitz > _______________________________________________ > osflash mailing list > [email protected] > http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org > > > _______________________________________________ osflash mailing list [email protected] http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org
