Fast and Powerful Eclipse-based Tool for Java Heap Dump Analysis

Vedran Lerenc and Andreas Buchen of SAP AG recorded this talk live at JavaOne in San Francisco.

SAP developed a tool for Java Heap Dump Analysis based on the Eclipse platform which it presented at JavaOne 2007. It was very well received at this and at other conferences, and was rated "Java Developer Tool of the Week" by the JavaPosse Podcast.

It is free of charge and can be downloaded from the Wiki which contains lots of information around it.

Using the SAP Memory Analyzer you can look into Java heap dumps, easily find big chunks of memory or complex memory aggregation patterns and identify who is keeping this memory alive. New and innovative analysis techniques support the user with a fast and powerful feature set.

The tool was developed to analyze real productive heap dumps which tend to get enormous in size with hundreds of millions of objects. Performance (e.g. parse once - open instantly, instant retained size of single objects, very quick approximation of retained size of a set of objects), low resource consumption (analysis of multi-GB heap dumps on 32 bit boxes) and especially the newly developed innovative analysis techniques make it quite useful, even to small application heap dumps.

To view the webinar given by Vedran and Andreas at JavaOne, click on the "live recording" link on the right side of the Wiki page. A transcript of the talk is also available from the same link.