I wrote lots of sloppy code, quickly, to get a game up and running fast.

That's great, worked fine, but now (weeks later) performance has slowed down enough it's getting annoying, and I'd like to clean things up.

First, obvious, thing: I'm getting GC freeing 1.5 MB per second. That's a lot bigger than I expected, since I'm only running at 20 FPS.

Eclipse's DDMS view has an allocation tracker, but the frequent GC's mean I don't get to see what's allocating so extensively.

Any ideas on how to catch this? Or is it just a case of "keep hitting Get Allocations button until you see something unexpected" ?

In the end, I just hit the "get allocations" button like crazy until something big appeared, fixed that, then repeated.

Although it felt a bit stupid, I believe this took less time than faffing around with manual DDMS dumps, manual running of the hprof converter tool (what a joke that is - "hey, we broke the standard. And, uh, we're not going to fix it. But here's a commandline tool you can use to un-break what we broke! have fun!"), etc.

(NB: I recently tried to enable the Eclipse plugin that's supposed to handle live hprofs of all kinds - it's too broken, and there are no docs, just a couple of long boring youtube videos. I gave up at that point )