determining java memory usage

Question

Hmmm. Is there a primer anywhere on memory usage in Java? I would have thought Sun or IBM would have had a good article on the subject but I can\'t find anything that looks

Answer 1

I've used the profiler that comes with newer versions of Netbeans a couple of times and it works very well, supplying you with a ton of information about memory usage and runtime of your programs. Definitely a good place to start.