Unique Features

This cheat sheet familiarizes you of with the Memory Analyzer's unique features for heap dump analysis. If you need more detailed information, click on the (?) icon to the right of each task.

Open the heap dump

From the main menu, select File > Open Snapshot,
then select a heap dump and press Open.
In this cheat sheet we will use a sample heap dump. Please open it by activating the action link below.

Open Class Histogram

Class Histogram shows the classes found in the snapshot, the number of objects for each class, the heap memory consumption of these objects, and the minimum retained size of the objects. To open the view press
Open Class Histogram
toolbar button.

Open Dominator Tree

Dominator tree shows for a particular object which other objects depend on it and will be garbage collected if that particular object becomes unreachable. To open the view press
Open dominator tree
toolbar button.

Paths to GC roots

This view find objects responsible for keeping the selected object in the heap.
Now you can perform the analysis in the newly opened "Paths to GC roots" view.