Java Stammtisch Carol McDonald

Yesterday I gave a talk at a the Jacksonville JUG about Java garbage collection, monitoring and tuning, which included a demo of Finding Memory Leaks Using the NetBeans Profiler and a demo of the  VisualGC plugin for  VisualVM



You can view or download the presentation here

Java garbage collection, monitoring and tuning

References and More Information:

• Finding Memory Leaks Using the NetBeans Profiler.Performance, Monitoring and Management, Testing, and Debugging of Java Applications
  • http://www.javapassion.com/javaperformance/
  • http://netbeans.org/kb/docs/java/profiler-intro.html
  • http://www.netbeans.org/community/magazine/html/04/profiler.html
• Memory management white paper
  • http://java.sun.com/j2se/reference/whitepapers/
• Destructors, Finalizers, and Synchronization
  • http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=604153 
• Memory-retention due to finalization article
  • http://www.devx.com/Java/Article/30192
• FindBugs
  • http://findbugs.sourceforge.net
• Heap analysis tools Monitoring and Management
  • http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/J2SE/monitoring/
• Troubleshooting guide
  • http://java.sun.com/javase/6/webnotes/trouble/
• JConsole
  • http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/J2SE/jconsole.html