Heap Dumps are vital artifacts to diagnose memory-related problems such as slow memory leaks, Garbage Collection problems, and java.lang.OutOfMemoryError.They are also vital artifacts to optimize the memory consumption.
There are great tools like Eclipse MAT and Heap Hero to analyze heap dumps. However, you need to provide these tools with heap dumps captured in the correct format. This article gives you multiple options to capture heap dumps.
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