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To analyze a cycle collector dump, you need the scripts from [https://github.com/amccreight/heapgraph/tree/master/cc Github].  The relevant scripts are find_roots.py and parse_cc_graph.py (which is called by find_roots).  Calling find_roots on a CC file with a specific object or kind of object will produce paths from rooting objects to the specified objects.  Most big leaks include an nsGlobalWindow, so that's a good class to try if you don't have any better idea.
To analyze a cycle collector dump, you need the scripts from [https://github.com/amccreight/heapgraph/tree/master/cc Github].  The relevant scripts are find_roots.py and parse_cc_graph.py (which is called by find_roots).  Calling find_roots on a CC file with a specific object or kind of object will produce paths from rooting objects to the specified objects.  Most big leaks include an nsGlobalWindow, so that's a good class to try if you don't have any better idea.


To fix a leak, the next step is to figure out why the rooting object is alive.  For a C++ object, you need to figure out where the missing references are from.  For a JS object, you need to figure out why the JS object is reachable from a JS root.  For the latter, you can use the corresponding [https://github.com/amccreight/heapgraph/tree/master/gc find_roots for JS] on the gc-edges file generated by the CC dump.
To fix a leak, the next step is to figure out why the rooting object is alive.  For a C++ object, you need to figure out where the missing references are from.  For a JS object, you need to figure out why the JS object is reachable from a JS root.  For the latter, you can use the corresponding [https://github.com/amccreight/heapgraph/tree/master/g find_roots for JS] on the gc-edges file generated by the CC dump.


===== Addons for creating and analyzing cycle collector graphs =====
===== Addons for creating and analyzing cycle collector graphs =====
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