How to memory profile in Java?

Question

I\'m still learning the ropes of Java so sorry if there\'s a obvious answer to this. I have a program that is taking a ton of memory and I want to figure a way to reduce its

Answer 1

In JProfiler, you can take go to the heap walker and activate the biggest objects view. You will see the objects the retain most memory. "Retained" memory is the memory that would be freed by the garbage collector if you removed the object.

You can then open the object nodes to see the reference tree of the retained objects. Here's a screen shot of the biggest object view:

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