Question

I saw this thing on using instruments for my app. When I profile my app, the initial memory occupied is 563 KB which is before UIImagePickerController pops up. There is one button on the first viewController which makes the UIImagePickerController appear.
As soon as UIImagePickerController appears, memory occupied goes upto 1.6 – 1.7 MB. If I select any image or cancel the UIImagePickerController, the memory occupied is still 1.6 – 1.7 MB which I believe should be 563 KB(or may be few KB’s more).
Please see the below code I have used :

- (IBAction)chooseButtonPressed:(id)sender
{
    UIImagePickerController *pickerController = [[UIImagePickerController new]autorelease];
    [pickerController setSourceType:UIImagePickerControllerSourceTypePhotoLibrary];
    [pickerController setDelegate:self];
}  

Why is the memory not being released?

Answer 1

We can’t add images to comments so i’m putting this as an answer. The Live Bytes are always less than the Overall Bytes except till the first time a memory is deallocated. This can be seen from the image below.

I don’t think there’s anything wrong with your deallocation. I think you’re just looking at the wrong values!

EDIT- I Think the problem might be somewhere else. To see the values I was seeing, you need to make a little change. As shown in the image below, you need to uncheck the option Only track active allocations to see the values you’re looking for. If you still see 7.41 MB in Active allocations, then the problem is something else.