garbage collection

  1. VIDEO Debug memory leaks with the Microsoft Edge Detached Elements tool

    Memory leaks occur when the JavaScript code of an application retains more and more objects in memory that it doesn’t need any longer instead of releasing them for the browser to garbage collect (GC). For long-running apps, small memory leaks of only a few kilobytes can add up to noticeably...
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    Windows 10 Limit Memory Map files RAM usage?

    Is there any way to limit the maximum RAM that memory maps can use in Windows (for the whole os or a particular process (Elasticsearch)) so that we can keep a java application from being paged out due to lack of memory causing large garbage collection pauses?
  3. Time-Travel Debugging for JavaScript/HTML Applications | Marron

    Have you ever set a breakpoint a few statements too late, or accidentally stepped over the function call that you wanted to step into, and wished that you could just reverse-execute the program in the debugger? This video from Microsoft Research describes an experimental time-traveling debugger...
  4. CoreCLR is now open source on GitHub

    The .NET Core Team talks about the release of the Link Removed. CoreCLR is the second open source repo that the team has shared on GitHub, the first one being CoreFX. CoreCLR is an execution engine for .NET apps, performing functions such as IL byte code loading, compilation to machine code and...
  5. Windows 7 [C#] Marshalling, Pointers, Structs & Classes Full Example

    class ShapeClass { public unsafe Shape* Polygon; } struct Shape { public unsafe Shape(char* name, int numsides) { Sides = numsides; Name = name; } public unsafe char* Name; public int Sides; } private unsafe void MainMethod() { char[] name =...
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    Windows 7 Win 7, SSD and Partition

    Win 7 64gb SSD with 54.72 Primary Partition and 4.9 Recovery Partition. 28gb used. 26gb free. In order to take advantage of Garbage Collection and Trim do I need to create a separate partition for Garbage Collection or will the 26gb free space be used for trim and garbage...
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    Windows 7 Trim & Garbage Collection for 64gb M4 Crucial SSD

    I have trim enabled. Do I have to log off my computer periodically in order to make sure Garbage Collection does it's job?
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    Windows 7 BLACK Screen of Death

    I've seen numerous troubleshooting, questions, and suport pages for black screens of death. The problem, however, is what I HAVEN'T found. I HAVEN'T found is a solution to MY problem specifically. Allow me to describe my problem. Having persisted for quite a while, every time I play a 3D game...
  9. Windows 7 Verve: A Type Safe Operating System

    Link Removed(an OS written in managed code used for research purposes) has provided several very useful research results and opened new avenues for exploration in operating system design. Recently, Link Removed that takes a new approach to building an OS stack with verifiable and type safe...
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    Windows 7 RAM fills up & system slows down handling large files

    Specs: Q6600 ~2.5ghz, 4gb ram, HD4850 video card, windows 7 x64 build 7100 Whenever I install a game that is several gigabytes large or I copy a file which has gigabytes of data my physical RAM fills up (up to 99+%) and my system slows to a crawl. Even after the trasfer/copy/install is done...
  11. Windows Vista New Problem With Java

    Just took an update to "JAVA" today. Now every move I make on the Internet I get a warning "Java wants to run this program ALLOW, NOT ALLOW. If I hit the Don't Allow everything works same as usual. Anybody know what this is about? I've got a new console in tools: Home User Directory. I don't...