The chart feature requires the birt chart engine version 2 3 0 or greater.
Open mat in eclipse.
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The memory analyzer chart feature is optional.
The stand alone memory analyzer is based on eclipse rcp.
Connect the mat to an existing java process or.
It is useful if you do not want to install a full fledged ide on the system you are running the heap analysis.
Once the ma perspecive is open one should be able to see the memory analyzer specific eclipse menus.
With the memory analyzer feature installed try window open perspective other.
In eclipse mat we can see the incoming and outgoing references for a given object by right clicking an object and selecting list objects with outgoing references with incoming references.
Manually acquire a heap dump and load it into the mat.
In all cases it s important to keep in mind that this is a snapshot of memory at a point in time.
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Go to the file open file option in eclipse s menu bar browse to the dump file that was generated in the previous page and open it.
The eclipse memory analyzer is a fast and feature rich java heap analyzer that helps you find memory leaks and reduce memory consumption.
The mat cannot tell you why an object was created nor can it show you objects that have already been garbage collected.
I m probably missing something basic but i could not find how to explicitly start the program.
Use the memory analyzer to analyze productive heap dumps with hundreds of millions of objects quickly calculate the retained sizes of objects see who is preventing the garbage collector from collecting objects run a report to automatically extract leak.
I installed eclipse memory analyzer mat and followed the tutorial from the official site but the hprof file open in a standard text editor and not in mat as i expected.
The dump analysis will be presented to you as shown in the next page.
Then select memory analyzer and ok.