Live Profiling Results Window - Memory Usage

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The results that are displayed in the Live Profiling Results window depend upon which profiling task is in progress. When you analyse memory usage, the window displays data on object allocation and liveness. The profiling results displayed depend on which of the following options you choose.

Record object creation only

When you choose this option, the Profiling Results window displays a list of classes (including array classes), with the total size and number of instances that have been allocated since you issued the instrumentation command. All classes currently loaded by the target JVM (and each new class as it is loaded) are instrumented.

When you choose this option, the Live Profiling Results window displays the following information for each profiled class:

Right-click a class name to access the following popup menu commands.

Record both object allocation and garbage collection

When you choose this option, the Live Profiling Results window displays the following information:

The following popup menus are available when you right-click a class name.

Limiting the profiled classes to only those you are interested in can help reduce the profiling overhead.

The following popup menu item is also available when you select the Record Stack Traces option.


For more on how object liveness data is tracked and collected, see the following NetBeans FAQs:

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Analyzing Application Memory Usage
Working with Live Profiling Results
About Profiling Results

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