This helps the developer to find memory leaks and high memory consumption issues.
Mat memory analyzer tool.
A heap dump contains valuable information about the state of your system and the mat provides the tools needed to access this data.
The stand alone memory analyzer is based on eclipse rcp.
The eclipse memory analyser tooling mat is a set of plug ins for the eclipse ide which provides tools to analyze heap dumps from java application and to identify memory problems in the application.
The memory analyzer chart feature is optional.
It is useful if you do not want to install a full fledged ide on the system you are running the heap analysis.
The chart feature requires the birt chart engine version 2 3 0 or greater.
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.
To install the memory analyzer into an eclipse ide use the update site url provided below.
However like with many open tools if something is missing you re not locked in nor are you out of luck.
This tool is based on the eclipse memory analyzer mat project and uses the ibm diagnostic tool framework for java dtfj feature to enable the processing of dump files from ibm virtual machines.