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

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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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 ...

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 ...

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Writing great, high-quality software is hard work. No matter how well we know a platform or how long we spend on code, there are bound to be bugs. Memory leaks are among the most common problems, and ...

Update 11/7: Since I wrote this column, several Macworld readers have reached out with similar issues on M1 MacBooks. Some readers have had luck with disabling extensions and other have suggested it’s ...

If you find that programs are slow to open, applications are slow to work, or your Windows computer is sluggish overall, a memory leak may be the reason. A memory leak occurs when the operating system ...