Why and How to avoid Event Handler memory leaks?

I just came to realize, by reading some questions and answers on StackOverflow, that adding event handlers using += in C# (or i guess, other .net languages) can cause common memory leaks… I have used event handlers like this in the past many times, and never realized that they can cause, or have caused, memory … Read more

AngularJS – Does $destroy remove event listeners?

https://docs.angularjs.org/guide/directive By listening to this event, you can remove event listeners that might cause memory leaks. Listeners registered to scopes and elements are automatically cleaned up when they are destroyed, but if you registered a listener on a service, or registered a listener on a DOM node that isn’t being deleted, you’ll have to clean … Read more

Is there a good Valgrind substitute for Windows?

Locked. This question and its answers are locked because the question is off-topic but has historical significance. It is not currently accepting new answers or interactions. I was looking into Valgrind to help improve my C coding/debugging when I discovered it is only for Linux – I have no other need or interest in moving … Read more

What kind of leaks does automatic reference counting in Objective-C not prevent or minimize?

In the Mac and iOS platforms, memory leaks are often caused by unreleased pointers. Traditionally, it has always been of utmost importance to check your allocs, copies and retains to make sure each has a corresponding release message. The toolchain that comes with Xcode 4.2 introduces automatic reference counting (ARC) with the latest version of … Read more

possible EventEmitter memory leak detected

I am getting following warning: (node) warning: possible EventEmitter memory leak detected. 11 listeners added. Use emitter.setMaxListeners() to increase limit. Trace: at EventEmitter.<anonymous> (events.js:139:15) at EventEmitter.<anonymous> (node.js:385:29) at Server.<anonymous> (server.js:20:17) at Server.emit (events.js:70:17) at HTTPParser.onIncoming (http.js:1514:12) at HTTPParser.onHeadersComplete (http.js:102:31) at Socket.ondata (http.js:1410:22) at TCP.onread (net.js:354:27) I wrote code like this in server.js: http.createServer( function (req, … Read more