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Space Leak

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 14:05:16 -0500

I believe that the proper technical term for this is "space leak": http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/space+leak

Memory theft

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 06:18:25 -0500

I prefer to call it "memory theft" in Java, because it's slighlty different phenomena as compared to C. In C you usually lose memory because you lose pointer to it, in Java you lose memory because application takes it and doesn't give back.

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Repetition is the mother of learning: why do memory leaks still happen in garbage-collected Java?

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 17:28:31 -0500

One of the problems with discovering a memory leak is that even if the symptoms are strong and don’t leave much room for doubt, the interpretation of the memory usage measurements is always specific to your Java application. That is why it is...