Trend Analysis Procedures

This topic contains the procedures you can use analyze your application. It shows you how to start analyzing your application and how to use the Trend Analysis tab.

To Start Analyzing Your Application

• The trend analysis should start automatically. If not, click the Start button to start the trend analysis

  If you have an application with a memory leak, the trend analysis can look something like where you have a type with a great growth in memory consumption. The darker (red) the type is, the faster the memory consumption is growing.

To Pause Trend Analysis for Your Application

• Click the Pause button.

  This operation freezes the updating of the trend analysis in the Trend tab and you can start to analyze the application. If you want to view more data from the same analysis run, click the Play button again and the Memory Leak Detector resumes displaying samples from the application.

To Stop Trend Analysis of Your Application

• Click the Stop button.

  This operation stops the continuous update of the data. When you start the trend analysis again, the data that is currently displayed will be reset.

To Start Further Investigation

1. Right-click the object you think contains a memory leak.

2. Select Add to Type Graph.

3. Click the Type Graph tab.

   The Type Graph appears. For instructions on how to investigate further, see "Investigating Type References".