We adopted LeakCanary the day it was released but we don't find it useful at all. In fact, it makes the app almost unusable for us. Every 2-3 mins, it would just freeze the app to capture a heap dump. As our app is quite complicated with a big memory footprint, this just aggravates the problem. I just hope it was more usable.
I've found LeakCanary incredibly useful at rooting out context related leaks you probably wouldn't otherwise think of.
If you look under "no-op dependency" you'll find a solution to the issue you're describing.
I've found it useful to have a leak canary specific build flavor or type, which only I ever see. For all other debug / production build leak canary is not initialized.
Hyper-V is gonna eat VMWare's lunch. 2008 Server is kicking ass and taking names, and is indeed a solid product from what I hear. MS's next iteration of server+virtualization will be the death knell for VMWare unless VMWare drastically reduces prices and comes up with remarkable innovative improvements in the next few years.
Alternative virtualization platforms are proliferating and get better all the time. Vmware has an early lead like Palm did and is correctly optimizing revenue from that lead but down the road ... where is palm today?
Agreed. Between Citrix (xen) and Redhat (kvm), as well as the related open source offerings, keep getting better.
I think the main area that VMWare still has a win, from people I know who use it, are management tools and the ability to prioritize/allocate/throttle IO on network block devices (SANs) per vm.
