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This project cleans weak retainer paths from heap snapshots of even the largest most gnarly dumps 💩
✨ Leaving Your Memory Leak Debugging
To use:
npx cleanheap <input-file-path>
Optionally:
npx cleanheap <input-file-path> <output-file-path>
To install dependencies:
bun install
To run:
bun run src/index.ts
To compile:
bun build src/index.ts --compile --outfile cleanheap
This project was created using bun init
in bun v0.7.1. Bun is a fast all-in-one JavaScript runtime.
Inspired by dnachev/heapdump-cleanup I used to use but which couldn't handle larger heap snapshots.
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A tool for scrubbing Weak retainer paths from a heap snapshot
The npm package cleanheap receives a total of 2 weekly downloads. As such, cleanheap popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that cleanheap demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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