Option for identifying memory leak

[madana gopal]

Please tell me any option that i can use to identify the place of memory leak in javascript execution.I am seeing continuous memory increase on clicking on jquery page/parsing JSON string.I want to identify/search the place in V8 code for that. It will be very helpful, if you can share any way to find the place of leak.Thanks.

Regards,

Madan

[madana gopal]

In a little bit detail, i am seeing the below strings coming inside RuntimeHidden_StringCharCodeAt() function.From uri.js it is seen that charCodeAt() is called from encode() function.

entry_id[0][align]
.........
entry_id[0][lastElementChild][align]
........
entry_id[0][lastElementChild][lastElementChild][align]

The above statements are coming when i user string->Print() inside RuntimeHidden_StringCharCodeAt(). Later these strings are flattened and memory is allocated. The memory allocation didn't seen to be decreasing. i.e when allocating flatten memory for "entry_id[0][lastElementChild][align]" looks not deallocating memory of "entry_id[0][align]". Could you please throw light on place, where i have to see, so that the memory allocated in NewRawOneByteString will get deallocated.Also, is this pattern is DOM string?.please clarify.

Regards,
Madan

Regards,
Madan

[Ben Noordhuis]

Are you using Chrome? Chrome DevTools has built-in functionality for
taking, inspecting and comparing heap snapshots.

If you are not using Chrome, you can programmatically create a heap
snapshot with v8::HeapProfiler::TakeHeapSnapshot() and write it to
disk with v8::HeapSnapshot::Serialize(). Make sure you give the file
a .heapsnapshot extension, or Chrome will refuse to load it.

If you need ready-to-paste example code, please see
https://github.com/bnoordhuis/node-heapdump :-)