Recommendations for a heap analysis tool for Java?

java memory profiling heap
ripper234 picture ripper234 · Jan 14, 2010 · Viewed 86.3k times · Source

List your favorite heap analysis tools (e.g. jprofiler, jmap, ...). Let's keep it one tool per answer, with a short list of pros and cons for each tool.

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dparnas picture dparnas · Jan 14, 2010

Eclipse Memory analyzer http://www.eclipse.org/mat/

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