While the process works and has been available for quite some time, problems include: support for only primitive types and Java objects; no way to deterministically free memory; a limited ...

The Java automatic garbage collection process typically operates as a low-priority thread that constantly searches memory for unreachable objects, objects not referenced by any other object ...

The Java boxing and autoboxing of primitive types will take care of it for you ... a relatively smooth operation when it came to clock cycles, garbage collection and memory consumption. I couldn’t ...

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 ...