Choosing effective colours for data visualization
Proceedings of the 7th conference on Visualization '96
A static analyzer for finding dynamic programming errors
Software—Practice & Experience
Visualizing Reference Patterns for Solving Memory Leaks in Java
ECOOP '99 Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming
Information Visualization: Perception for Design
Information Visualization: Perception for Design
Low-overhead memory leak detection using adaptive statistical profiling
ASPLOS XI Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems
HPCA '05 Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture
Bell: bit-encoding online memory leak detection
Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems
Cork: dynamic memory leak detection for garbage-collected languages
Proceedings of the 34th annual ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT symposium on Principles of programming languages
Object ownership profiling: a technique for finding and fixing memory leaks
Proceedings of the twenty-second IEEE/ACM international conference on Automated software engineering
Multiscale visualization of dynamic software logs
EUROVIS'07 Proceedings of the 9th Joint Eurographics / IEEE VGTC conference on Visualization
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A program's memory system performance is one of the key determinants of its overall performance. Lack of understanding of a program's memory system behavior can lead to performance problems, the most common being memory fragmentation and memory leaks. In this paper, we present AllocRay, a visualization that animates memory allocation event trace information over a time period of execution of a program. Various modes of display with custom color mappings and zooming allow the programmer to see how heaps are used over time (by allocation type, age, size, or thread id). Custom displays also allow the programmer to quickly detect potential memory leaks and fragmentation problems. Composable filters enable the programmer to focus on specific issues. We describe the techniques used to enable processing of a huge number of trace events while enabling rapid response to visualization view changes. We also describe informal interviews with four expert programmers to examine the usability of the AllocRay design.