How can I determine what objects are being collected by the garbage collector?

Question

I have significant garbage collection pauses. I\'d like to pinpoint the objects most responsible for this collection before I try to fix the problem. I\'ve looked at the hea

Answer 1

Take a look at https://developers.google.com/chrome-developer-tools/docs/heap-profiling

especially Containment View

The Containment view is essentially a "bird's eye view" of your application's objects structure. It allows you to peek inside function closures, to observe VM internal objects that together make up your JavaScript objects, and to understand how much memory your application uses at a very low level.

The view provides several entry points:

DOMWindow objects — these are objects considered as "global" objects for JavaScript code; GC roots — actual GC roots used by VM's garbage collector; Native objects — browser objects that are "pushed" inside the JavaScript virtual machine to allow automation, e.g. DOM nodes, CSS rules (see the next section for more details.) Below is the example of what the Containment view looks like: