When I run my iPhone app with Instruments Leaks and parse a bunch of NSDates using NSDateFormatter my memory goes up about 1mb and stays even though these NSDates should be dealloc'd after the parsing (I just discard them if they aren't new).

I thought the malloc (in my heaviest stack trace below) could become part of the NSDate but I also thought it could be memory that only used during some intermediate step in parsing. Does anyone know which one it is or how to find out?

Also, is there a way to put a breakpoint on NSDate dealloc to see if that memory is really being reclaimed?

Here's what my date formatter looks like for parsing these dates:

df = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init]; 
[df setDateFormat:@"EEE, d MMM yyyy H:m:s z"];

Here's the Heaviest Stack trace when the memory bumps up and stays there:

   0 libSystem.B.dylib  208.80 Kb     malloc
   1 libicucore.A.dylib  868.19 Kb     icu::ZoneMeta::getSingleCountry(icu::UnicodeString const&, icu::UnicodeString&)
   2 libicucore.A.dylib  868.66 Kb     icu::ZoneMeta::getSingleCountry(icu::UnicodeString const&, icu::UnicodeString&)
   3 libicucore.A.dylib  868.67 Kb     icu::ZoneMeta::getSingleCountry(icu::UnicodeString const&, icu::UnicodeString&)
   4 libicucore.A.dylib  868.67 Kb     icu::DateFormatSymbols::initZoneStringFormat()
   5 libicucore.A.dylib  868.67 Kb     icu::DateFormatSymbols::getZoneStringFormat() const
   6 libicucore.A.dylib  868.67 Kb     icu::SimpleDateFormat::subParse(icu::UnicodeString const&, int&, unsigned short, int, signed char, signed char, signed char*, icu::Calendar&) const
   7 libicucore.A.dylib  868.67 Kb     icu::SimpleDateFormat::parse(icu::UnicodeString const&, icu::Calendar&, icu::ParsePosition&) const
   8 libicucore.A.dylib  868.67 Kb     icu::DateFormat::parse(icu::UnicodeString const&, icu::ParsePosition&) const
   9 libicucore.A.dylib  868.67 Kb     udat_parse
  10 CoreFoundation  868.67 Kb     CFDateFormatterGetAbsoluteTimeFromString
  11 CoreFoundation  868.67 Kb     CFDateFormatterCreateDateFromString
  12 Foundation  868.67 Kb     -[NSDateFormatter getObjectValue:forString:range:error:]
  13 Foundation  868.75 Kb     -[NSDateFormatter getObjectValue:forString:errorDescription:]
  14 Foundation  868.75 Kb     -[NSDateFormatter dateFromString:]

Thanks!