A memory leak happens when an application, such as Firefox, fails to free memory no longer utilized, causing your RAM usage to increase far above normal levels. The most basic way to detect a memory ...

According to a story by TechRadar, the team at Microsoft Edge has created new tools that are able to debug memory leaksin browsers to cause them to run slower. To elaborate, memory leaks usually take ...

If you have developed C or C++ applications, then you are no doubt aware of memory leaks and their pitfalls. Although the .Net CLR abstracts memory management from the developer, memory leaks can ...

After my post on Browsing Memory the JRuby Way, one commenter and several other folks suggested I actually show using Eclipse MAT with JRuby. So without further ado… The Eclipse Memory Analyzer, like ...

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 ...

Programmers needing a break from marathon debugging sessions may want to peruse a blog post from two Facebook software engineers, who offer tips and war stories about rooting out elusive memory errors ...