Heap dump files are large in size (several GB). To troubleshoot the heap dump, you have to transmit the heap dump file from your production server to your local machine
How is HeapHero different?
HeapHero USER MANUAL
HeapHero is a world-class heap dump analysis tool. On top of doing traditional heap dump analysis, it's the first tool in the industry to report the wasted memory. Table of Contents Introduction Heap Statistics Whats in your Memory Large Objects Thread Report Object Headers Duplicate Strings Duplicate Objects Duplicate Primitive Arrays Inefficient Collections Inefficient Object... Continue Reading →
WORD/POWERPOINT/EXCEL OR GC/THREAD/HEAP DUMPS
If you want to learn about the architecture of the application, performance characteristics of the application, effectiveness of the engineering organization - lot of times (if not all the times), we will look at the Word documents, PowerPoint decks, Excel spreadsheets that have been put together by the engineers/managers/executives of that application. In these artifacts... Continue Reading →