To install the memory analyzer into an eclipse ide use the update site url provided below.
Open mat in eclipse.
Manually acquire a heap dump and load it into the mat.
Once the ma perspecive is open one should be able to see the memory analyzer specific eclipse menus.
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Or how to configure hprof files to open in map.
The chart feature requires the birt chart engine version 2 3 0 or greater.
It is useful if you do not want to install a full fledged ide on the system you are running the heap analysis.
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The dump analysis will be presented to you as shown in the next page.
Connect the mat to an existing java process or.
I m probably missing something basic but i could not find how to explicitly start the program.
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 memory analyzer chart feature is optional.
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.
Then select memory analyzer and ok.
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.
The mat cannot tell you why an object was created nor can it show you objects that have already been garbage collected.
With the memory analyzer feature installed try window open perspective other.
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 stand alone memory analyzer is based on eclipse rcp.