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2nd April 2009 - Link Blog

Heap Dump Analysis. Using jmap to dump the JVM’s memory to disk, then analysing it using the visualvm GUI tool.

Posted 2nd April 2009 at 10:34 am

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This is a link post by Simon Willison, posted on 2nd April 2009.

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