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RootCause Ferrets Out Memory Leaks


By Yvonne L. Lee
June 15, 2003 —  OC Systems Inc. was slated to begin shipping version 2.1 of its RootCause Java debugging tool on June 10, coinciding with the JavaOne conference. The biggest addition in the new version is a memory leak detector designed to protect bloated applications from crashing on the system.

RootCause 2.1 is designed to work on production application without modification.

RootCause tracks objects that have been allocated and identifies which ones haven't been de-allocated. Then, it displays a report of objects according to which objects' memory allocation had grown at the fastest rate. Developers then can go to the specific lines in an application to see where the error is taking place.

The program's interface had not been completed at press time, but OC Systems president Oliver Cole (www.ocsystems.com) claimed that in the final version, the memory leak report would directly link to the lines in the code causing the error message.

Cole added that the longer the leak-detection algorithm runs, the more accurate it becomes.

The software works with C and C++ code, as well as with J2EE and J2SE. It also can detect leaks on remote computers, according to the company.

This version now runs on AIX and Linux, as well as Solaris and Windows.

Running RootCause requires two pieces of software: the US$2,995 console that defines the traces and displays the results, and a $1,000 per-processor agent that collects the data.


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