What's the difference between abandoned memory and a memory leak?

Question

Both are exactly the same thing, except that \"abandoned memory\" refers to a whole object graph leaked rather than just a single object. Right?

Answer 1

Abandoned memory are the memory leaks. Heapshot Analysis will help you to Find Undesirable Memory Growth. This is good article about that. http://www.friday.com/bbum/2010/10/17/when-is-a-leak-not-a-leak-using-heapshot-analysis-to-find-undesirable-memory-growth/