I don’t know anyone who likes investigating a Java heap dump. They can be massive — literally multiple gigs in size. They contain so much information that identifying the cause of a JVM memory leak ...

This blog posting looks at how VisualVM can be used to generate and analyze a heap dump in a manner similar to that done with command-line tools jmap and jhat. The jmap (Java Memory Map ...

When you create a new object in Java,<br><br>aClass a = new aClass();<br><br>memory is dynamically allocated on the process's heap to store the object instance. A reference to this object is ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Heap dump is a snapshot of the Java memory. It contains information about the Java objects and ...

To reduce application execution time, Java’s segmented code cache would be extended with an optional “hot” code heap to compactly accommodate a part of non-profiled methods, under a draft ...

Running a commercial app set to -Xmx2048M on Sol 10 (sun4v sparc) with 64G of physical RAM. Is it possible to bump up the java heap space even further?