How can I figure out what is holding on to unfreed objects?

Question

One of our programs is sometimes getting an OutOfMemory error on one user\'s machine, but of course not when I\'m testing it. I just ran it with JProfiler (on

Answer 1

I've used the Yourkit Java profiler(http://www.yourkit.com) for performance optimizations on java 1.5. It has a section on how to work on memory leaks. I find it useful.

http://www.yourkit.com/docs/75/help/performance_problems/memory_leaks/index.jsp

You can get a 15 day eval : http://www.yourkit.com/download/yjp-7.5.7.exe

BR,
~A