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hhhhhhhhhhhhhh5
Inspiring
March 13, 2018
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Memory leaks tools.

  • March 13, 2018
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Any suggestions for a tool to investigate memory leaks? If none available, is there some AS3 API that would list objects larger than certain size in memory? Thanks!

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IGZN
IGZN
Inspiring
March 14, 2018

Here's a good read about Scout basics:

Getting started with Adobe Scout | Adobe Developer Connection

Note the links at the bottom.

This one is about profiling memory, it's in French, but Chrome's built-in translator does an okay job if you need it in English:

Profiling de la mémoire avec Adobe Scout | Adobe Developer Connection

FlashDevelop is also great as rewb0rn​ mentioned.

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    hhhhhhhhhhhhhh5Author
    Inspiring
    March 15, 2018

    Thanks for the article and the translation advice My mistake was not selecting multiple frames. Still, I find Scout to be not very useful for memory leak detection. In fact, I have not been able to find one single step-by-step tutorial on that topic where it's shown how to detect a memory leak. Too bad they stopped working on Scout. Could have been a really cool tool.

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      zwetan_uk
      Inspiring
      March 15, 2018

      if you can not search yourself for about 2 seconds on google and/or Adobe Developer Connection
      terms like "Adobe Scout Tutorials", "Adobe Scout memory profiling", etc.
      I'm not sure who will be able to do that for you

      Scout is the most advanced profiler you will get for Flash and AIR
      it's there, it's free, nothing is missing, you just have to learn it

      Lars Laborious
      Lars Laborious
      Legend
      March 13, 2018

      If you're using Animate you can also mark "Generate size report" in Publish Settings. But as IGZN mentions Adobe Scout is great for profiling your code.

      natural_criticB837
      natural_criticB837
      Legend
      March 13, 2018

      FDT and FlashDevelop both have a memory sampler that will help you identify memory leaks. I don't know about other IDEs but maybe there are also some alternatives in FlashBuilder or IntelliJ.

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      hhhhhhhhhhhhhh5Author
      Inspiring
      March 15, 2018

      I was able to detect memory leaks with FlashDevelop SWF Profiler in other projects, but this one uses flash.data.SQLConnection and other DB-related packages. They seems to confuse FlashDevelop debugger, so it just hangs.

      IGZN
      IGZN
      Inspiring
      March 13, 2018

      You can try Adobe Scout for profiling, or profile within your own the code with Sampler package (AS3 API)

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      hhhhhhhhhhhhhh5Author
      Inspiring
      March 13, 2018

      >> You can try Adobe Scout for profiling, or profile within your own the code with Sampler package (AS3 API)

      I tried Scout and it seems to show only the total memory allocation, which doesn't help much. Perhaps I missed something. Can Scout actually show objects in memory?

      kheftel
      kheftel
      Inspiring
      March 13, 2018

      if you compile your swf with telemetry enabled (don't remember the exact name of the option atm, sorry), scout can show you every object allocation in your swf, from the time you press scout's record button on.

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