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Basic memory analysis

Basic memory analysis displays statistics about the application heap. It is used to detect memory management problems. Memory analysis can help developers identify memory leaks as well as excessive object allocation that might cause performance problems. Basic memory analysis has been enhanced with the views described in Table | -1.
Table 27-1

View name Description
Memory statistics Displays statistics about the application heap. It provides detailed information such as the number of classes loaded, the number of instances that are alive, and the memory size allocated by every class.
Object references Displays references by a set of objects. This is useful to study data structures, to find memory leaks, and to find unexpected references.

Basic memory analysis views

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View name	Description
Memory statistics	Displays statistics about the application heap. It provides detailed information such as the number of classes loaded, the number of instances that are alive, and the memory size allocated by every class.
Object references	Displays references by a set of objects. This is useful to study data structures, to find memory leaks, and to find unexpected references.