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Why You Must Always Furnace Clean Your Air ducts
Why You Must Always Furnace Clean Your Air Ducts
Your air ducts are one of the most important features in the home. They let the air of your heating and cooling system circulate in every room and provide constant comfort in every season.
In fact, all the air in your house flows through your air ducts several times a day. The air that flows through your ducts is the very same one that fills your environment, and it"s this same air you and your family breathe. Therefore, this air should be as very clean as possible. To this end, you must get your Edmonton Furnace Cleaning appointment booked today.
The cleaning of the air ducts is simply the removal of dust and impurities in the duct system. This includes the supply and the return air ducts including the diffusers and registers in all the rooms. Most of the power vacuums used by furnace cleaners, remove dust and dirt from re-entering and circulating into the house.
Carrying out a Furnace cleaning in Edmonton has many advantages. Four of them are listed below:
Creates a cleaner living environment
There are many benefits of cleaning your air ducts, one of them which is very obvious is that cleaning your air ducts improves the home, in the area of health and hygiene. People with allergies will find that regular cleaning helps to improve their watery eyes, sneezing, etc. cleaning of air ducts helps eliminate allergens, dust, and other tiny but harmful particles. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has stated that cleaning the air ducts is very important if there is any noticeable accumulation of debris, dust and other unwanted particles in the ducts or if some particles are being released into the home from the duct supply registers. If your air ducts are infested with insects, rodents, etc., inviting an Edmonton duct cleaning team will make the air in your home much safer.
Reduces allergens and irritants
Besides dust, your air ducts often contain harmful pollutants and microorganisms. These include pollen, mold spores, pet dander, bacteria, mildew, and similar toxins. People who have asthma, certain allergies, and other respiratory or breathing problems are always very sensitive and reactive to these airborne particles. Regular cleaning of the air ducts promotes a healthier life; otherwise, the dirty and polluted air in your house will circulate over several times.
Removes unpleasant odor and smells
Pets, all the household cleaning agents, mold, paint fumes, smoking or use of tobacco and food preparation adds to the musty smell in your air ducts. Each time the air conditioner or the furnace is running, these odors are pushed round the house. Even the accumulation of dirt and dust in the duct over a period of years can trigger a stale smell from your air ducts. Thorough cleaning of your air ducts from a good duct cleaning Edmonton team will eliminate any particle producing an unpleasant smell, resulting in a fresher and pleasing home.
Improves airflow and efficiency of your duct system
Registers and Ductwork, which have a high accumulation of dust and dirt, can restrict airflow from the air conditioner. What this means is that your system will work harder in other to heat or to cool your home as usual, and this results in a lower efficiency level. Conversely, a clean air duct system operates at maximum efficiency and offers a cost-effective performance, saving you money, time and stress. A duct cleaning Edmonton service is very important for this to happen.
Understanding what duct cleaning is
Cleaning the air duct can help cool and freshen up the house, but it has been confusing to some if it can reduce allergy symptoms. In this article, you'd find out what most of the experts have to say.
Being at home during the allergy season will not necessarily limit you or restrict your allergens exposure. Allergies to certain substances like mold, pet hair, dust, etc. can be a nuisance to your home throughout the year. In fact, more than half of all households contain at the very least, about six noticeable allergens, this is according a report by American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology.If you or someone close to you or in your house are among the numbers of people who have indoor allergies, it is possible you have heard of cleaning your air duct in a bid to reduce exposure to the indoor allergens.
What is an air duct cleaning and how effective is it?
Duct cleaning removes dirt from the air duct surfaces in your home to reduce or eliminate the number of particles which produce or promotes allergy. But there has been misunderstandings as to if duct cleaning will reduce allergy symptoms.
According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in the United States, so far, there isn't enough evidence for the effects of duct cleaning to be recommended, so every person should weigh the possible benefits and harms before making his/her decision if he needs duct cleaning or not.
Think about it, is it proper to keep the junk and dirt you have in your air ducts?
When should you consider duct cleaning?
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) suggests considering duct cleaning if you observe any of the following
- Your duct surfaces or some other components of your cooling and heating system have had a significant amount of visible mold. (A duct cleaning team in Fort McMurray can show you this, should it be present.)
- You have insects, rodents, or any other pests attacking and infesting your ducts.
- Your ducts are packed with dirt and dust.
- Dust or dirt is released into the house by the system"s supply registers.
Although the EPA have not shown any indication that the cleanliness of your ducts can help prevent your health problems. And they haven't been any studies by the EPA to show that dust levels in your homes are increased by dirty air ducts they have however advised that cleaning the air ducts is very good, not harmful and promotes hygiene.
If you or a family member has allergy symptoms and you think they may have something to do with dirty air ducts, talk to your doctor, the company that runs your heating and cooling system can also advise you on cleaning the ducts of your heating or air conditioning system. Duct cleaning team in Edmonton may be of help.
It is important to live in a hygienic environment and one free from pest or rodent attacks. Duct cleaning Edmonton services might help you have a clean duct which promotes good hygiene and a conducive environment for you.
Recommendations of NADCA on HVAC and Duct cleaning
To minimize the risk(s) of cleaning of your HVAC or duct cleaning Edmonton service team, you must start by hiring and contracting a qualified contractor. The air ducts cleaning that's provided by a person who the National Air Duct Cleaning Association (NADCA) trained and certified as the best possibility of being carried out or done both safely and properly.
According to NADCA, the main trade organization for contractors who clean the air ducts or HVAC system. Its members must have on staff at least a certified Air Cleaning Specialist (ASCS) and are responsible for the cleaning and restoration of an air conditioning system or an air duct system for the standard customer and association guidelines.
Of course, NADCA certification does not guarantee a smooth experience, but at least assures proper training.
Duct cleaning and cleaning the HVAC system
There are a few confusion over duct cleaning services, and one of them is the disagreement as to if it is right that duct cleaning must be included as a part of the general cleaning of the HVAC system. The truth is, it must always be cleaned. Because mostly, the cleaning of the duct is only done when it has been entirely contaminated, it must be cleaned when the entire HVAC is being cleaned too. Also when the ducts are being cleaned, the HVAC system must be cleaned too, this is because it is important to clean whatever comes in contact with the air moving through the air ducts
The following is the philosophy and recommendation of NADCA.
NADCA recommends that the ducts must be cleaned as part of a general HVAC system cleaning and replacement of the air filters, diffusers and cleaning grilles, check the drain pans and the drain lines for proper drainage, also check the heat and cooling coils, grills, blower motor, furnace air plenum, etc. They also provide a useful checklist for the private/residential consumers, detailing their recommended processes.
Items recommended being cleaned
NADCA has stated it that during HVAC and Duct cleaning services, the following items must be covered by your HVAC or Duct cleaning Calgary service team:
- The HVAC Ducts
- The branched distribution and main supply duct must be cleaned.
- Clean the return air ducts.
- Seal all the panels of installation in the ductwork (as required for the tool access) by NADCA standards.
- Diffusers and Grills
- Remove and clean the supply registers and the return air grilles.
- Furnace plenum
- Clean the furnace supply chamber and also the return air plenum.
- Furnace component
- The heat exchanger of the furnace must be cleaned.
- First remove then clean and also reinstall the fan motor;
- You must also check all the humidifier media and the drip pan.
- The evaporator coil must be cleaned and drained.
- Make sure the cooling coil is visibly clean, and the drain pan is completely clean and properly drained.
- The furnace air filters
- The air filter must be replaced or washed with a permanent air filter.
It is easy to make mistakes, during duct cleaning in Edmonton. And that"s the risk. But giving the wrong cleaners the job can cause you more harm so hire only the best to do the job.
Being properly performed by qualified technicians not just saves you time and money, but allows you to stay healthy.
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Syria's civil war poses an expanding threat to the region and beyond. Washington should seize the opportunity that still exists to weaken the Assad regime, writes CFR's Elliott Abrams.
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Farm Fresh Eggs
But we are blessed to have several Farmers Markets in our area and have had fun visiting them this summer. One booth we found had farm fresh eggs, so I reached into the bottom of my purse and pulled out the $3.49 for one dozen. Crazy? Perhaps. But I was ready to try it and see for myself.
The next day I made scrambled eggs for breakfast and had high hopes. And yes they were very, very good. I found a couple of things pretty interesting about them, including the fact that the shell seemed to be thicker and stronger than the eggs we get in the store. And the yellow seemed much brighter.
Would I buy them again? Not very likely for $3.49 a dozen when I can get a dozen for a dollar at the grocery. Except that for a few moments during that one breakfast I felt a small spark of kinship with my kin from years past. And how do you really put a price on that?
5 comments:
- Ginger said...
Love that picture..fresh eggs always look pretty to me! Collecting eggs from the hen house was one of my chores growing up.
Believe it or not I'm not a big egg fan, but have grown to love omlets with lots of cheese and bacon!
Today I was going through some of my recipes and found a coconut cream pie recipe and thought of you. I've made this pie a couple of times and it's really good. If you're interested, let me know and I'll email it to you.
- grammy said...
Pretty eggs...and expensive. If you saw a the documentary on eggs that I saw once you might be more tempted to pay it. It really is horrible how they are raised massively and feed weird stuff and disease and all that stuff. yuck.
- Just Call Me Grammy said...
We LOVE farm fresh eggs, but lost our source and cannot seem to find another one near by. $3.49 sounds a bit steep to me, but I probably would have done it too.
- valerie said...
I remember my grandparents having their own chickens and eggs when I was little.
I think they really do taste better. I probably wouldn't pay $3.49 very often though.
I got all the ingredients to make the coconut cake.
I'm going to a dinner Tues. night and am taking that for dessert. I can't wait!
I finally found the cream of coconut at the store. I had to ask someone for help. I assumed it would be with the sugar, flour etc. but it was over with the mixed drink aisle. Who would have thought.
Anyway, I'll let you know how it turns out.
- Le Bleu Bonnet Boutique said...
Farm Fresh eggs are the best. We are lucky enough to get them often from one of hubby's friends. In the between times, I buy the ones at Kroger for 2.19 a dozen. They are closest to fresh as I have found in the store. Good eating for sure!!!!


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According to a new market report published by Transparency Market Research "Endocrine Testing Market (E2, FSH, hCG, LH, DHEAS, Progesterone, Testosterone, TSH, Prolactin, Cortisol, Insulin Tests and Others)- Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends and Forecast, 2013 - 2019," the global endocrine testing market was valued at USD1.53billion in 2012 and is estimated to reach a market worth USD2.03 billion in 2019 growing at a CAGR of 4.3% from 2013 to 2019.
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Endocrine system refers to the collection of endocrine glands (ductless glands) and secretory organs that release hormones directly into the blood stream. Endocrine system is instrumental in regulating certain body mechanisms such as metabolism, growth and sexual development and emotions. Also, it enables the body to cope up with different events such as cellular mechanisms and stress by acting in co-ordination with the nervous system. Hormones refer to the body's chemical messengers and render information and instruction transfer from one set of cells to another. Hormones can act only on those cells that are genetically programmed to receive and respond to the information or instructions released by hormones. There are lot of factors that influence the hormone levels including changes in body fluids and minerals in blood along with stress and infection.
Several endocrine tests are performed to assess varying levels of hormones in the body. This results in the determination of hypersecretion (excess) or hyposecretion (less) that consequently helps in early diagnosis and treatment of several endocrine disorders (such as sexual dysfunction, diabetes and others). Consistent rise in diabetic, obese and infertile patient population across the globe has broadened the scope for growth and acceptance of various endocrine test kits. In addition, introduction of technologically advanced diagnostic platforms coupled with growing healthcare awareness and surge in preference for quick and easy operating test platforms have further augmented the growth prospects for endocrine test kits or methodologies. On the contrary, high development costs and less flexible reimbursement policies are some of the factors that may hamper the growth of global endocrine testing market.
Endocrine tests are instrumental in monitoring the normal and abnormal levels of hormones secreted in the body. The market for insulin tests is estimated to record highest growth rate during the forecast period majorly due to increasing incidence of the diabetes worldwide coupled with technological advances and increasing healthcare awareness across the globe. As per International Diabetes Federation (IDF), in the year 2013, around 382 million people suffered from diabetes and are anticipated to rise to 592 million by 2035. Also, 80% of the diabetic population lives in low and middle income nations. Thyroid stimulating hormone test constituted the largest market segment owing to increasing thyroid dysfunction cases and pose high risk for acquiring cardiovascular disorders. The increased acceptance of endocrine test kits is attributed to increasing incidence of obesity, unhealthy food habits, physical inactivity and consistent technological advances. Follicle stimulating hormone test followed by human chorionic Gonadotropin test occupied third and fourth position in the market by 2019. Hence, all these factors mentioned above influence the growth and acceptance of several test kits.
Among the diagnostic technology market the tandem mass spectrometry segment is estimated to record highest growth rate due to high specificity and accuracy rendered by this platform in determination of hormone levels. Immunoassays and sensor technologies are expected to be the other fastest growing diagnostic technology segments during the forecast period owing to their increased use in several endocrine testing methodologies. However, high cost involved in the research and development along with subsequent commercialization of the same results in the high costs of the tests thereby hampering the growth of the market.
While, the ambulatory care centers of the total market, by end users segment is expected to be the fastest growing segment during the forecast period due to quick service offerings and costs reduction due to less hospital stay and gain competitive edge over the other end users. In addition, home based tests and commercial laboratories are also expected to grow considerably as compared to others (hospitals and physician offices).
At the regional level, Europe was the largest market in 2012for endocrine testing market followed by North America. The growth has been attributed to the presence of sophisticated laboratories along with increased participation of the respective governments in these regions. Asia-Pacific region represents the fastest growing region during the forecast period from 2013 to 2019.This is majorly due to huge untapped patient population, increasing healthcare awareness and healthcare spending and presence of large number of undiagnosed and untreated patients in low and middle income nations. In addition, rise in disposable incomes and increased investments of many key players in these emerging economies will further boost the growth and development in this region. For instance, Abbott Laboratories has been investing heavily in the emerging economies such as India and China to enhance their revenues to 50% by 2015. The company has opened around six manufacturing and R&D facilities in Asia-Pacific region. This substantiates the lucrative business opportunities in these regions and enables the companies to introduce and commercialize quality endocrine tests thereby enhancing the strength of the market players.
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Estradiol (E2) Test
Follicle Stimulating Hormone (FSH) Test
Human Chorionic Gonadotropin (hCG) Test
Luteinizing Hormone (LH) Test
Dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate (DHEAS) Test
Progesterone Test
Testosterone Test
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Prolactin Test
Cortisol Test
Insulin Test
Others (Gastrin, Thymosin, Secretin, etc.)
- Endocrine Testing Market, by Diagnostic Technologies
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Immunoassay Technologies
Monoclonal and Polyclonal Antibody Technologies
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Clinical Chemistry Technologies
- Endocrine Testing Market, by End Users
Commercial Laboratories
Ambulatory Care Centers
Home Based Tests
Physician Offices
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Swiss campaigners are pursuing legal action against Sanofi. ASSAC is an organisation set up to support Swiss vicitms.
Belgian families are supporting each other and will also be pursuing justice.
The French regulator referred Valproate to the European Medicines Agency PRAC to assess the effectiveness of the warnings issued in 2015.
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FACSaware sent letters to top UK law firms requesting representation but none were prepared or willing to represent.
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Norman Lamb MP has an APPG into AEDs in Pregnancy, it will be meeting in January 2018 at the Department of Health to discuss Valproate. At a meeting in December 2017 a Care plan and compensation package was discussed but neither agreed or disagreed.
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#FACSaware and MHRA Yellow Card joined together to promote Yellow Card and Valproate risk.
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4th November 2013
Dr Ian Hudson, Chief Executive of the MHRA confirmed that Sarah Morgan from the Vigilence and Risk management team at the MHRA will be aiding the European review into the use of Sodium Valproate and will keep the Department of Health up to date with progress.
29th October 2013
The meeting with Health Minister Norman Lamb MP was rescheduled.
Branwen Mann attended representing FACSAWARE with Deborah Mann. Susan Cole attended on behalf of OACS. Emma Friedmann attended on behalf of FACT. Ian McLachlan a campaigner from Scotland travelled from Glasgow. InFact and Facsa were also represented.
The Department of Health is now aware of our concerns and Claire Phillips from the Department of Health is collating information. From 2017 the responsible Minister is Lord O'Shaughnessy.
Anas Sarwar MP and Alec Shelbrooke MP were also in attendance.
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14th October 2013
The MHRA request the European Medicines Agency review the use of Sodium Valproate.
29th September 2013
Emma Friedmann met Alec Shelbrooke MP to discuss FACS. Parents also took part in the NHS Demonstration.
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There's been a lot of fuss made lately over memory inspection and profiling tools for Ruby implementations. And it's not without reason; inspecting a Ruby application's memory profile, much less diagnosing problems, has traditionally been very difficult. At least, difficult if you don't use JRuby.
Because JRuby runs on the JVM, we benefit from the dozens of tools that have been written for the JVM. Among these tools are numerous memory inspection, profiling, and reporting tools, some built into the JDK itself. Want a heap dump? Check out the jmap (Java memory map) and jhat (Java heap analysis tool) shipped with Hotspot-based JVMs (Sun, OpenJDK). Looking for a bit more? There's the Memory Analysis Tool based on Eclipse, the YourKit memory and CPU profiling app, VisualVM, now also shipped with Hotspot JVMs…and many more. There's literally dozens of these tools, and they provide just about everything you can imagine for investigating memory.
In this post, I'll show how you can use two of these tools: VisualVM, a simple, graphical tool for exploring a running JVM; and the jmap/jhat combination, which allows you to dump the memory heap to disk for inspection offline.
Getting JRuby Prepared
All these tools work with any version of JRuby, but as part of JRuby 1.6 development I've been adding some enhancements. Specifically, I've made some modifications that allow Ruby objects to show up side-by-side with Java objects in memory profiles. A little explanation is in order.
In JRuby, all the core classes are represented by "native" Java classes. Object is represented by org.jruby.RubyObject, String is org.jruby.RubyString, and so on. Normally, if you extend one of the core classes, we don't actually create a new "native" class to represent it; instead, all user-created classes that extend Object simply show up as RubyObject in memory. This is still incredibly useful; you can look into RubyObject and see the metaClass field, which indicates the actual Ruby type.
Let's see what that looks like, so we know where we're starting from. We'll run a simple script that creates a custom class, instantiates and saves 10000 instances of it, and then sleeps.
~/projects/jruby ➔ cat foo_heap_example.rb
class Foo
ary = []
10000.times { ary << Foo.new }
puts "ready for analysis!"
~/projects/jruby ➔ jruby foo_heap_example.rb
ready for analysis!
So we have our test subject ready to go. To use the jmap tool, we need the pid of this process. Of course we can use the usual shell tricks to get it, but the JDK comes with a nice tool for finding all JVM pids active on the system: jps
~/projects/jruby ➔ jps -l
52862 sun.tools.jps.Jps
52857 org/jruby/Main
48716 com.sun.enterprise.glassfish.bootstrap.ASMain
From this, you can see I have three JVMs running on my system right now: jps itself; our JRuby instance; and a GlassFish server I used for testing earlier today. We're interested in the JRuby instance, pid 52857. Let's see what jmap can do with that.
~/projects/jruby ➔ jmap
jmap [option] <pid>
(to connect to running process)
jmap [option] <executable <core>
(to connect to a core file)
jmap [option] [server_id@]<remote server IP or hostname>
(to connect to remote debug server)
where <option> is one of:
<none> to print same info as Solaris pmap
-heap to print java heap summary
-histo[:live] to print histogram of java object heap; if the "live"
suboption is specified, only count live objects
-permstat to print permanent generation statistics
-finalizerinfo to print information on objects awaiting finalization
-dump:<dump-options> to dump java heap in hprof binary format
live dump only live objects; if not specified,
all objects in the heap are dumped.
format=b binary format
file=<file> dump heap to <file>
Example: jmap -dump:live,format=b,file=heap.bin <pid>
-F force. Use with -dump:<dump-options> <pid> or -histo
to force a heap dump or histogram when <pid> does not
respond. The "live" suboption is not supported
in this mode.
-h | -help to print this help message
-J<flag> to pass <flag> directly to the runtime system
The simplest option here is -histo, to print out a histogram of the objects on the heap. Let's run that against our JRuby instance.
~/projects/jruby ➔ jmap -histo:live 52857
num #instances #bytes class name
1: 22677 3192816 <constMethodKlass>
2: 22677 1816952 <methodKlass>
3: 35089 1492992 <symbolKlass>
4: 2860 1389352 <instanceKlassKlass>
5: 2860 1193536 <constantPoolKlass>
6: 2798 739264 <constantPoolCacheKlass>
9: 3042 292032 java.lang.Class
11: 10002 240048 org.jruby.RubyObject
13: 5474 131376 java.lang.String
The resulting output is a listing of literally every object in the system…not just Ruby objects even! The value of this should be apparent; not only can you start to investigate the memory overhead of code you've written, you'll also be able to investigate the memory overhead of every library and every piece of code running in the same process, right down to byte arrays (the "[B" above) and "native" Java strings ("java.lang.String" above). And so far we haven't had to do anything special to JRuby. Nice, eh?
So, back to the matter at hand: the Foo class from our example. Where is it?
Well, the answer is that it's right there; 10000 of those 10002 org.jruby.RubyObject instances are our Foo objects; the other two are probably objects constructed for JRuby runtime purposes. But obviously, there's nothing in this output that tells us how to find our Foo instances. This is what I'm remedying in JRuby 1.6.
On JRuby master, there's now a flag you can pass that will stand up a JVM class for every user-created Ruby class. Among the many benefits of doing this, we also get a more useful profile. Let's see how to use the flag (which will either be default or very easy to access by the time we release JRuby 1.6).
~/projects/jruby ➔ jruby -J-Djruby.reify.classes=true foo_heap_example.rb
ready for analysis!
If we run jmap against this new instance, we see a more interesting result.
num #instances #bytes class name
1: 22677 3192816 <constMethodKlass>
2: 22677 1816952 <methodKlass>
3: 35089 1492992 <symbolKlass>
4: 2860 1389352 <instanceKlassKlass>
5: 2860 1193536 <constantPoolKlass>
6: 2798 739264 <constantPoolCacheKlass>
9: 3042 292032 java.lang.Class
11: 10000 240000 ruby.Foo
13: 5476 131424 java.lang.String
A-ha! There's our Foo instances! The "reify classes" option generates a JVM class of the same name as the Ruby class, prefixed by "ruby." to separate it from other JVM classes. Now we can start to see the real power of the tools, and we're just at the beginning. Let's see what a simple Rails application looks like.
~/projects/jruby ➔ jmap -histo:live 52926 | grep " ruby."
29: 11685 280440 ruby.TZInfo.TimezoneTransitionInfo
97: 970 23280 ruby.Gem.Version
98: 914 21936 ruby.Gem.Requirement
122: 592 14208 ruby.TZInfo.TimezoneOffsetInfo
138: 382 9168 ruby.Gem.Dependency
159: 265 6360 ruby.Gem.Specification
201: 142 3408 ruby.ActiveSupport.TimeZone
205: 118 2832 ruby.TZInfo.DataTimezoneInfo
206: 118 2832 ruby.TZInfo.DataTimezone
273: 41 984 ruby.Gem.Platform
383: 14 336 ruby.Mime.Type
403: 13 312 ruby.Set
467: 8 192 ruby.ActionController.MiddlewareStack.Middleware
476: 8 192 ruby.ActionView.Template
487: 7 168 ruby.ActionController.Routing.DividerSegment
508: 6 144 ruby.TZInfo.LinkedTimezoneInfo
523: 6 144 ruby.TZInfo.LinkedTimezone
810: 4 96 ruby.ActionController.Routing.DynamicSegment
2291: 2 48 ruby.ActionController.Routing.Route
2292: 2 48 ruby.I18n.Config
2293: 2 48 ruby.ActiveSupport.Deprecation.DeprecatedConstantProxy
2298: 2 48 ruby.ActionController.Routing.ControllerSegment
This time I've opted to grep out just the "ruby." items in the histogram, and the results are pretty impressive! We can see the baffling fact that there's 970 instance of Gem::Version, using at least 23280 bytes of memory. We can see the even more depressing fact that there's 11685 live instances of TZInfo::TimezoneTransitionInfo, using at least 280440 bytes.
Now that we're getting useful data, let's look at the first of our tools in more detail: jmap and jhat.
jmap and jhat
As you might guess, I do a lot of profiling in the process of developing JRuby. I've used probably a dozen different tools at different times. But the first tool I always reach for is the jmap/jhat combination.
You've seen the simple case of using jmap above, generating a histogram of the live heap. Let's take a look at an offline heap dump.
~/projects/jruby ➔ jmap -dump:live,format=b,file=heap.bin 52926
Dumping heap to /Users/headius/projects/jruby/heap.bin ...
Heap dump file created
That's how easy it is! The binary dump in heap.bin is supported by several tools: jhat (obviously), VisualVM, the Eclipse Memory Analysis Tool, and others. It's not officially a "standard" format, but it hasn't changed in a long time. Let's have a look at jhat options.
~/projects/jruby ➔ jhat
ERROR: No arguments supplied
Usage: jhat [-stack <bool>] [-refs <bool>] [-port <port>] [-baseline <file>] [-debug <int>] [-version] [-h|-help] <file>
-J<flag> Pass <flag> directly to the runtime system. For
example, -J-mx512m to use a maximum heap size of 512MB
-stack false: Turn off tracking object allocation call stack.
-refs false: Turn off tracking of references to objects
-port <port>: Set the port for the HTTP server. Defaults to 7000
-exclude <file>: Specify a file that lists data members that should
be excluded from the reachableFrom query.
-baseline <file>: Specify a baseline object dump. Objects in
both heap dumps with the same ID and same class will
be marked as not being "new".
-debug <int>: Set debug level.
0: No debug output
1: Debug hprof file parsing
2: Debug hprof file parsing, no server
-version Report version number
-h|-help Print this help and exit
<file> The file to read
For a dump file that contains multiple heap dumps,
you may specify which dump in the file
by appending "#<number>" to the file name, i.e. "foo.hprof#3".
All boolean options default to "true"
Generally you can just point jhat at a heap dump and away it goes. Occasionally if the heap is large, you may need to use the -J option to increase the maximum heap size of the JVM jhat runs in. Since we're running a Rails app, we'll bump the heap up a little bit.
~/projects/jruby ➔ jhat -J-Xmx200M heap.bin
Reading from heap.bin...
Dump file created Fri Jul 09 02:07:46 CDT 2010
Snapshot read, resolving...
Resolving 604115 objects...
[much verbose logging elided for brevity]
Chasing references, expect 120 dots........................................................................................................................
Eliminating duplicate references........................................................................................................................
Snapshot resolved.
Started HTTP server on port 7000
Server is ready.
"Server is ready"? Damn you Java people! Does everything have to be a server with you?
In this case, it's actually an incredibly useful tool. jhat starts up a small web application on port 7000 that allows you to click through the dump file. Let's see what that looks like.
Here's the front page of the tool. We see a listing of all JVM classes in the system. If you scroll to the bottom, there's a few more general functions.
Let's go with what we know and view the heap histogram again.
Here we can see that there's lots of objects taking up memory, and they're a mix of JVM-native types, JRuby implementation classes, and actual Ruby classes. In fact, here we can see our friend TZInfo::TimezoneTransitionInfo again. Let's click through.
Pretty mundane stuff so far; basically just information about the class itself. But you see at the bottom of this screenshot that we can go from here to viewing all instances of TimezoneTransitionInfo. Let's try that.
Ahh, that's more like it! Now we can see that there's a heck of a lot of these things floating around. Let's investigate a bit more and click through the first instance.
Now this is some cool stuff!
We can see that the JVM class generated for TimezoneTransitionInfo has three fields: metaClass, which points at the Ruby Class object; varTable, which is an array of Object references used for instance variables and other "internal" variables; and a flags field containing runtime flags for the object, like whether it's frozen, tainted, and so on. We can see that this object has no special flags set, and we can dig deeper into those fields if we like. We'll skip that today.
Moving further down, we see a few more amazing links. First, there's a list of all references to this object. Ahh, now we can start to investigate why they're staying in memory, even though we're not using them. We can even have jhat show us the full chains of references keeping these objects alive; a series of objects leading all the way back to one "rooted" by a thread or by global JVM state. And we can explore the other direction as well, walking all objects reachable from this one.
This is only a small part of what you can do with jmap and jhat, and they're so simple to use it feels almost criminal. But what if we want to inspect an application while it's running? Dumping heaps and analyzing them offline can tell you much of the story, but sometimes you just want to see the objects coming and going yourself. Let's move on to VisualVM.
VisualVM spawned out of the NetBeans profiling tools. One of the biggest complaints about the JVMs of old were that all the built-in tooling seemed to be designed for JVM engineers alone. Because Sun had the foresight to build and own their own IDE and related modules, it eventually became a natural fit to pull out the profiling tools for use by everyone. And so VisualVM was born.
On most systems with Java 6 installed, you should have a "jvisualvm" command. Let's run it now.
When you start up VisualVM, you're presented with a list of running JVMs, similar to using the 'jps' command. You can also connect to remote machines, browse offline heap and core dump files, and look through memory and CPU profiling snapshots from previous runs. Today, we'll just open up our running Rails app and see what we can see.
VisualVM connects to the running process and brings up a basic information pane with process information, JVM information, and so on. We're interested in monitoring heap usage, so let's move to the "Monitor" tab.
Already we're getting some useful information. This view shows CPU usage (currently zero, since it's an idle Rails app), Heap usage over time, and the number of JVM classes and threads that are active. We can trigger a full GC, if we'd like to tidy things up before we start poking around. But most importantly, we can do the jmap/jhat dance in one step, by clicking the Heap Dump button. Tantalizing, isn't it?
Initially, we see a basic summary of the heap: total size, number of classes and GC roots, and so on. We're looking for our friend TimezoneTransitionInfo, so let's look for it in the "Classes" pane.
Ahh, there it is, just a little ways down the list. The counts are as we expect, so let's double-click and dig a bit deeper.
Here we have a lot of the same information about object instances that we did with jhat, but presented in a much richer format. Almost everything is active; you can jump around the heap and do analysis that would take a lot of manual work very easily. Let's try another tool: the Retained Size calculator.
Because our JVM tools see all objects equally, the reported size for a Ruby object on the heap is only part of the story. There's also the variable table, the object's instance variables, and objects they reference to consider. Let's jump to a different object now, Gem::Version.
We don't want to have to scroll through the list of classes to find ruby.Gem.Version, so let's make use of the Object Query Language console. With the OQL console, you can write SQL-like queries to retrieve listings of objects in the heap. We'll search for all instances of ruby.Gem.Version.
The query runs and we get a listing of Gem::Version objects. Let's dig deeper and see how much retained memory each Version object is keeping alive.
Clicking on the "Compute Retained Sizes" link in the "Instances" pane prompts us with this dialog. We're tough…we can take it.
Reticulating splines…
So it looks like each of the Version objects take from 125 to 190 bytes for a total of 19400 bytes, most of which is from the variable table. What's in there?
Ahh…looks like there's a String and an Array. And of course we can poke around the heap ad infinatum, into and out of "native" JRuby and JVM classes, and truly get a complete picture of what our running applications look like. Now you're playing with power.
Your Turn
This is obviously only the tip of the iceberg. Tools like Eclipse Memory Analysis Tool include features for detecting leaks; VisualVM and NetBeans both allow you to turn on allocation tracing, to show where in your code all those objects are being created. There's tools for monitoring live GC behavior, and many of these tools even allow you to dig into a running heap and modify live objects. If you can dream it, there's a tool that can do it. And you get all that for free by using JRuby.
If you'd like to play with this, it all works with JRuby 1.5.1 but you won't get the nice JVM classes for Ruby classes. For that, you can pull and build JRuby master, download a 1.6.0.dev snapshot, or just wait for JRuby 1.6. And if you do play with these or other tools, I hope you'll let us know and blog about your experience!
In the future, I'll try to show some of the other tools plus some of the CPU profiling capabilities they bring to the table. For now, rest assured that if you're using JRuby, you really do have the best tools available to you.
This article was originally published on Charles Nutter's blog Headius.


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EDITORIAL: Toward a world free of genocide
When the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum opened 20 years ago, there were questions about its mission and whether it belonged so near the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The events took place in Europe; the victims were concentrated in one ethnic group; was this really an American story?
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You could look at the Rwanda genocide of 1994, the terrible killings in Darfur, Syrian dictator Bashar Assad's ongoing slaughter of his own people -- a slaughter that the United States is doing little to prevent -- and conclude that the museum has failed at its second mission. A fairer reading would be: There's still a lot of work to do.
Last weekend the museum marked its two-decade anniversary and opened a special exhibition, "Some Were Neighbors: Collaboration and Complicity in the Holocaust." Museum researchers have been collecting remembrances not only from Holocaust survivors but also from perpetrators and the many people who fell somewhere in between.
"People who were complicit one day could have helped a Jew the next day," Bloomfield says. "We want people to think, 'What would I have done? What WILL I do?' The categories are complex. We want to complicate people's thinking a little more."
It's a worthy mission for the next 20 years.
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Indians not rushing eager top prospect Lindor
GOODYEAR, Ariz. -- Francisco Lindor understands the development process, but that has not hindered the shortstop's desire. Asked on Thursday when he hoped to reach the big leagues, the Indians' top prospect did not hesitate with his answer.
"As soon as possible," Lindor said.
Told of Lindor's comment, Tribe manager Terry Francona smiled.
"I'm glad," Francona replied.
None of this means that Cleveland plans on pushing the 20-year-old Lindor up the organizational chain before he is deemed ready. Lindor -- selected with the eighth overall pick in the 2011 First-Year Player Draft -- advanced to Double-A Akron last year, but spent just 21 games at that level before a back injury forced him to shut things down in August.
Lindor will likely open this season back at Double-A, but a call to the manager's office with news of a promotion to Triple-A might not be far away. Francona is convinced that Lindor could pull his weight in the Majors right now when it comes to defense. There are other facets of his game that need polishing.
"His playing will dictate when he gets to the big leagues," Francona said. "Everybody wants to be in the big leagues yesterday -- that's a given -- but there is a progression, and there's things you have to go through and adjustments you make along the way.
"Whether he could handle it defensively right now, I have no doubt he could. ... But you also want to get them here when they can show they're capable of doing what they do offensively. If you get them there too quick, that's not developing. That's getting them beat up."
Lindor, who is in big league camp for the first time this spring, posted a .303/.380/.407 slash line in 104 games between Class A Advanced Carolina and Double-A Akron last season. Along the way, he compiled two home runs, 22 doubles, seven triples, 34 RBIs, 25 stolen bases and 65 runs, ending the year with more walks (49) than strikeouts (46).
As for the back injury, Lindor said rest was all he required.
"It was nothing bad," Lindor said. "Eventually, I ended up calling it a season, but thank God it was later on, in the last two weeks of my season. Right now, I'm feeling good. I knew I was going to be fine."
During the first week of full-squad workouts, Lindor has been spending time with Indians shortstop Asdrubal Cabrera, and staying close to Cleveland's other infielders, including second baseman Jason Kipnis. Lindor said he is trying to use Spring Training to absorb as much as he can before heading back to Minor League camp.
"I'm trying to pick their brains," he said. "I'm trying to learn from everything they know. They're in the big leagues for a reason. They obviously went through what I went through and they've accomplished everything. They're in the big leagues and they're both All-Stars, so I definitely can learn when they talk."